Managing Maildirs

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003, Ollie Cook wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:00:55AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> Number one above will do the trick and is far more efficient than using the
>> ``find ...-exec'', although you might want to modify it to only nuke mail
>> over a certain age.  To nuke all trash over 30 days old:
>> 
>> 	find /home/*/Maildir/.Trash -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm
>
>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'

I find using options like this leads to portability problems.

Bill
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