Pine Commands

I heart Pine. Today I saved a coworker a lot of time by explaining Pine’s batch-apply commands.

Say you want to move all emails containing the string “monkeys” in the subject line to another mail folder. These are the commands to enter:

; to enter Selection Commands

B Broaden Selection

T select based on Text

S select text in the Subject line

type in the string of text you’re searching for, and hit Enter.

You’ll notice all the selected mails have an X by them now. Enter the following commands next:

A Apply Command

S Save selected messages

type in the name of the folder in which you want the messages saved.