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On 11 Apr 00, at 23:56, System Administrator wrote:
> can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from Maildir/cur ,
> please ?
How did the messages get there in the first place? (There was a
bug in some Maildir'ized POP3 servers - they wouldn't clear deleted
messages from cur; that's why I'm asking.)
> also when rm -f * comamned is ececuted it says /bin/rm Arguments list
> too long.
I don't know if bash has this problem. Anyway, this is exactly what
xargs is for. Just try
ls -f -1|xargs rm -f
and see.
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