On 1-Mar-2011, at 14:35, Richard Ball wrote:
On 1-3-2011 16:31, LuKreme wrote:
On 1-Mar-2011, at 12:23, Tim Rice wrote:
On 3/2/2011 1:12 AM, LuKreme wrote:
find /home/*/Maildir/.SPAM/{cur,new} -type f -ctime +7 -delete
find /usr/boxes/rice/computerstuff.net/old/ -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm {}
\;
I was going to test this on a new test box but after seeing your post I'm
curious about the -ctime and -delete vs -mtime and -rm? Also, How can I be
sure I'm using Maildir and not Mboxes?
ctime is the create time on the file, mtime is the modified time. Since I am
deleting only spam message, I don't care when the message was last looked
at, if it's int hat folder and was created 7 days ago, it's gone.
-exec rm {} \; is simply a long way of spawning a shell and executing rm for
old, OLD versions of find that don't have -delete.
Which will break if too many files are found. (where "too many" means the
length of the string of filenames exceeds the buffer length allocated for
commands on the system).
I thought they fixed that in find? But regardless, I've deleted a lot of mail
this way and not had a problem.
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