On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:03:20AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, December 6 at 04:46 PM, quoth Rado S: > >=- Chris G wrote on Thu 6.Dec'07 at 13:03:13 +0000 -= > > > >> What's a reliable way of removing empty maildirs? > >> Presumably it's possible but you'd have to follow some protocol that > >> wouldn't interfere with the proper writing of messages to the maildir. > > > >chmod a-w dir/new > >rm -rf dir > > Well, that's not *quite* safe, now is it? There's a race condition > between deciding that a maildir is empty and then changing the > permissions such that no one can deliver mail to it. It would have to > be more like this: > > chmod a-w dir/new > if [ `find dir -type f` ] ; then
You have to do something like this instead: found=`find dir -type f` if -n "$found" ; then At least on my system (Mac OS X 10.3 = Darwin 7.9.0), where find(1) exits with status 0 even if nothing is found. > echo "Not empty!" > chmod a+w dir/new > else > rm -rf dir > fi > > ~Kyle Paul. -- Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
