* Ian Zimmerman on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 17:28:18 -0700
> On 2015-09-20 01:43 +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> printf '%s' "/full/path/to/directory" | md5 | xargs rm -r

The `-r` should have been omitted of course.

> Thanks for the tip, it almost works :P On which system is there a md5
> program?

BSD-like Mac OS X, sorry, hadn't thought of that. Conversely it
doesn't come with md5sum.

> Here:
> 
> [9+0]~$ folder=Mail/inbox
> [10+0]~$ printf '%s' `readlink -f $folder` | md5sum
> 6937aaf0469360e061c78ffae25359d2  -
> [11+0]~$ printf '%s' `readlink -f $folder` | md5sum | awk '{print $1;}'
> 6937aaf0469360e061c78ffae25359d2

That would not work here because readlink doesn't have an -f
option and afaics no way to display the full path. I would
probably do something like to handle a relative path:

$ printf '%s/%s' "$PWD" "$folder" | md5 | xargs rm

-- 
\black\trash movie         _SAME  TIME  SAME  PLACE_
 --->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/stsp.php
\black\trash audio   _ANOTHER  TIME  ANOTHER  PLACE_
--->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/atap.html

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