On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:21:35AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 23 at 08:16 PM, quoth Wu, Yue:
> >Hi, list, question is how to use some commands(i.g. shell commands) to remove
> >the empty maildirs, i.e. no any file in maildirs' new/ cur/ and tmp/?
>
> If you know it won't be re-created or delivered to while you're
> fussing with it, you can just use `rm -r maildirname` or even `rmdir
> maildirname/new maildirname/cur maildirname/tmp maildirname`
Maybe I did not describe clearly. I'm sure them won't be re-created while I'm
removing them. I just need a way to determine if a maildir is empty(it should
has the empty new/ tmp/ cur/ respectively), then remove the empty maildir.
`rm -r maildirname` doesn't help me to determine if the maildirname is empty.
`rmdir maildirname/new maildirname/cur maildirname/new maildirname` isn't a rock
way, because if one of a maildir's child dirs(new/ cur/ tmp) is lost, then mutt
won't regonize the maildir mailboxes.
The logic I need is:
if maildir A has no mails(new/ tmp/ cur/ are empty)
rm -r A
endif
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Hi,
Wu, Yue
