I want to move files depending on their date, from a maildir in an archive based on the year.
example:
~/Maildir/.MailingList/cur
Here are all Mails from years 2005 till 2008

I want to move the Mails from here to Maildir.subfolder 2008:
~/Maildir/MailingList.2008/cur$

for each mail X in current dir do
    if date of file contains "2008" M X {
      mv X ~/Maildir/MailingList.2008/cur$
    }
  }

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I dont know where to start,
which functions to use in Perl i searched for "moving files" but didnt find exactly what i need in this case.
If i missed a thread please show it to me ...
Maybe you could post some code sniplets?
which could help me to adopt it to my "problem", read through the needed sections of docs.
Thanks for any help in advance

In reply to moving files in a dir (Maildir) depending on Date by matze77

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