On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:26:53AM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Wu, Yue on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 09:24:35 +0800
> >
> > 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
>
> rm -r $d
>
> But I would be careful with rm while developing the script, perhaps do a
>
> echo $d
mutt owns the maildir at all, so I don't need to worry it :)
>
> first, to see what would be removed.
>
> > fi
> > done
>
> I also think this does not work with a nested hierarchy. Try this
> for a simple nested hierarchy:
>
>
> mailhier="~/temp/mails"
>
> for md in `find $mailhier -type d \( -name cur -o -name new -o -name tmp
> -execdir pwd \; \) -prune`; do
> if [ `find "$md" -type f | wc -l` -eq 0 ]; then
> echo "$md"
> # rm -r "$md"
> fi
> done
Thank you, I've take it down in my note for reference. James Michael's version
seems more concise, so I will use that version :)
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Hi,
Wu, Yue
