On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:31:56AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> It's one of my major gripes with maildir, there appears to be no way
> to safely (as in maildirsafely) remove a maildir folder.
I would move (rename) the root of the maildir; then you can delete cur,
new, and tmp in any order you like. Not absolutely foolproof, since you
might successfully delete (for example) $maildir/new but not
$maildir/cur, but at least the initial mv should be atomic.
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#!/bin/bash
# Also works in zsh (I think)
if [ $# != 1 ]; then
echo "usage: rmmaildir DIR" >&2
exit 1
fi
maildir=$1
# This should use ${maildir#/} or whatever but I forget the syntax
parent=${maildir%/*}
base=${maildir##*/}
tmp=$parent/.$base.deleting.$$
if mv $maildir $tmp; then
if rmdir $tmp/new $tmp/cur $tmp/tmp $tmp; then
exit 0
elif ! mkdir -p $tmp/new $tmp/cur $tmp/tmp; then
echo "Partially deleted" >&2
exit -1
fi
else
echo "Can't delete" >&2
exit 2
fi
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Paul.
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Paul Hoffman <nkui...@nkuitse.com>
