Re: How to remove empty maildir?

[Wu, Yue]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:03:09AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 23 at 09:45 PM, quoth Wu, Yue:
> >The logic I need is:
> >
> >    if maildir A has no mails(new/ tmp/ cur/ are empty)
> >        rm -r A
> >    endif
> 
> Ahh. How about:
> 
>      if [ $(find A -type f | wc -l) -eq 0 ] ; then
>          rm -r A
>      fi
> 

Thanks for all replies, mutt uses its own maildir so I have no issue about the
two apps read/write the same maildirs at one time.

I don't know sh, and I've tried the following sh script, but it doesn't work:

#!/bin/sh

DIR="~/temp/mails/*"

for d in ${DIR}; do
        if [ $(find d -type f | wc -l) -eq 0 ] ; then
                rm -r d
        fi
done

It says:

y...@bsd ~ > ./del_maildir.sh
find: d: No such file or directory
rm: d: No such file or directory
y

-- 
Hi,
Wu, Yue