Re: Counting Messages (was Re: limit messages per box)

On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 01:33:13PM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
>               # Time to gzip our mail...
>               :0
>               ? lockfile -ml
>               | ( gzip -c ${MAIL} > mail.gz.`ls mail.gz.* | wc -l`
Ugh.  What's that.

Try
                | ( gzip -c ${MAIL} > mail.gz.`ls mail.gz.* | wc -l` \
                    && cp /dev/null ${MAIL} )

>               j=`cp /dev/null ${MAIL}`
And remove this line.

This handles the case where gzip fails or where you're too close to
exceeding your quota to be able to handle the gzip.


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