Re: Managing Maildirs

From: Bill Campbell (freebsd_at_celestial.com)
Date: 12/22/03

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    Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 06:52:46 -0800
    To: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
    
    

    On Mon, Dec 22, 2003, Ollie Cook wrote:
    >On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:58:22PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
    >> >Using '-delete' rather than 'find ... | xargs rm' should be more efficient
    >> >still:
    >> >
    >> > find /home/*/Maildir/.Trash -type f -mtime +30 -delete
    >>
    >> Hmmm. That would be nice, but it seems to be BSD-centric. I don't see the
    >> ``-delete'' option in any version of find I have around, certainly not in
    >> the find from gnu:
    >> gfind . -name xxxxyyyyzzz -delete
    >> gfind: invalid predicate `-delete'
    >
    >Well, forgive me, but this is a FreeBSD-centric mailing list. :)

    That's true, but I learned a long time ago to avoid ``features'' specific
    to any vendor as using them only causes me grief on other systems.

    Bill

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