Hi,
On Mon, 24 May 2004 08:04:37 -0700 "David Groce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know it's not directly related to Spamassassin, but you folks are quite
> smart, so I thought I would see if you can see why my bash script doesn't
> seem to be cleaning out my spam. The goal is to periodically clean out any
> messages that are older than 7 days. Here it is.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cd /home
> for i in */Maildir/.Spam ; do
> find $i/{new,cur} -type f -mtime +7
> done | xargs -l -i rm -f
>
>
> The find part seems to ID all the older messages, but xargs doesn't seem to
> be removing them. Any ideas?
Doesn't 'xargs -i' require that you specify the argument to the command
with '{}'? Do you get what you want if you do:
----
#!/bin/sh
cd /home
for i in */Maildir/.Spam ; do
find $i/{new,cur} -type f -mtime +7
done | xargs -i rm -f {}
----
("-l1" is implied with the -i flag to xargs; -l is the same as "-l1"
so you should be able to drop -l entirely.)
> Or a better approach?
Does this make a difference?
----
cd /home
for i in */Maildir/.Spam ; do
find $i/{new,cur} -type f -mtime +7 -print | xargs -l25 rm -f
done
----
hth,
-- Bob
