On Tue, 25 May 2004, John Hall spake:
> find /home/Maildir/.Spam/{new,cur} -type f -mtime +7 | xargs rm
> 
> is more efficient. The find example will exec rm for each file, whereas
> xargs will call rm with as many arguments as it can.

find /home/Maildir/.Spam/{new,cur} -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0r rm

is more paranoid. ;)

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