Managing Maildirs

[Bill Campbell]

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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