Nicholas Payne-Roberts wrote:
> I think my problem is with the usage of the rm command. Even when i
> execute it on its own (not within find) it fails to delete the file:
>
> rm -f /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/nick/Maildir/.Junk
> E-mail/cur/*
>
> Executes with no error and fails to delete the contents of the
> directory. Could this simply then be due to the fact that rm will not
> delete files in a folder using * unless you are currently inside that
> directory?
I think it is due to the space in the directory name.
What I would suggest is modifying the find command so that it finds
the individual files rather than the directory. Try this:
find /home/vpopmail/domains -path "*/.Junk E-mail/cur/*" -type f -exec rm {}
\;
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Bowie
