Maildir experience
Jeremy Turner
jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Mon May 3 23:40:51 CDT 2004
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With all the talk lately of Maildir and mbox, I wanted to share another
viewpoint. I agree Maildir is the way to go, but I found one quirk with
it. In a Maildir folder which you want to remove all messages, don't do:
rm -rf *
Since the filenames for Maildir are considerably long, using multiple
ones on a command line like that caused an error saying in effect that
my command was too long to process. This worked however:
ls | xargs rm -rf
since it runs 'rm -rf filename' as a separate command.
Jeremy
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Jeremy Turner [ jeremy at linuxwebguy.com ]
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