On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:40:04AM -0500, Paul Hoffman wrote: > 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 "$found" ; then
Ack! Sorry, I meant: if [ -n "$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. -- Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
