On 1-Mar-2011, at 14:40, LuKreme wrote:
-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.
OK, on my mailserver I am actaully using the -exec rm {} \;
On the server that holds the backups, I am using -delete.
So, YMMV. Test first. Measure twice, cut once. Yadda Yadda.
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