more intelligent way to set limit for date

astroid/scripts/move-tag.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Script moves tagged mails to their respective folders if they are still lying around in INBOX
-# It also moved mails tagged with "del" to the Trash folder, "archive" to Archive, and "spam" to Spam folder
+# It also moves mails tagged with "del" to the Trash folder, "archive" to Archive, and "spam" to Spam folder
 
 CURDIR=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )
 
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ BL_THREADTAGS="$TRASHTAG|$SPAMTAG|$ARCHTAG|draft"   # Tags for which their whole
 
 touch "$LOG"  # Create logfile or update time stamp
 
-LASTRUN="$CURDIR"/move-tag-lastrun.log  # file where the date of the last successful run of this script is saved
 var_conn=$1   # supposed to be "on" or "off"
 
 function pdate {
@@ -46,10 +45,10 @@ function debugmsg {
 
 # Set date until when files are searched for, depending on current connection status
 if [ "${var_conn}" == "off" ]; then
-  DATELIMIT=$(date -d "$(cat ${LASTRUN}) - 1 days" +%Y-%m-%d)
+  DATELIMIT="1d"
   logrun echo "Datelimit for search set to $DATELIMIT"
 else
-  DATELIMIT=$(date -d "$(cat ${LASTRUN}) - 1 weeks" +%Y-%m-%d)
+  DATELIMIT="7d"
   logrun echo "Datelimit for search set to $DATELIMIT"
 fi
 
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ while read line; do
 
         # 1. Get thread ids of all entries with the searched tag
         debugmsg "search for all threads tagged with $TAG"
-        THREADS=$(notmuch search --exclude=false tag:$TAG and date:$DATELIMIT..$(date -d "+1 year" +%Y-%m-%d) | cut -d" " -f1 | cut -d":" -f2)
+        THREADS=$(notmuch search --exclude=false tag:$TAG and date:${DATELIMIT}.. | cut -d" " -f1 | cut -d":" -f2)
 
         # 2. Get message ids of all messages in these threads
         debugmsg "search for all IDs of these threads"
@@ -133,5 +132,3 @@ while read line; do
   debugmsg ""
 
 done < "$CSV"
-
-echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d) > ${LASTRUN}