I'm sure it comes from my being a gormless idiot, but whatever is the -UKWS argument immediately after the mb2md.pl invocation?

$MB2MD -UKWS -s "$INBOX" -d "$WORKING" As always, reading the idiom of someone else's scripting is an education. And some of it wouldn't work with native AIX sh/ksh, so changed the functions: folders_hash() { local HASH=find $FOLDERS -type f |sort|(IFS=\ ;while read file; do ls -l "\$file"; done) eval "$1=\"$HASH\"" }

folders_hash() { local IFS=
local HASH=find $FOLDERS -type f | sort | \ while read file do ls -l "\$file" done # the escapes are so that $1 gets "$HASH" NOT $HASH # So the resolution is deferred... eval "$1=\"$HASH\"" } I would have wished for a few more comments within the script.

==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty

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