Re: Email Mac
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Dale - I have a script that runs each night from cron as follows:#!/bin/shcd /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/WebCatalogEngine mv EmailCompleted EmailCompleted.old mkdir EmailCompleted chown www:ftpguest * chmod 770 EmailCompleted rm -R EmailCompleted.oldThis will remove the folder even if there are 20000 emails in there ..Alain> Mike, > > On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 03:26 AM, Michael Davis wrote: > > [snip] > >> Speaking of this problems with Emailer on OS X... I've got too many files >> in my EmailCompleted folder. rm * will not delete them. It reports /bin/ >> rm: Argument list too long. >> How do I delete all these files? > > do an ls to see what the filenames begin with, then you have the fun of > doing (for example) > > rm 1023* -f > rm 1024* -f > rm 1025* -f > > and so on. I find that if you have a full range of numbers from one to nine > as the last digit, you usually have to remove about 6 of them before you > can drop a number > rm 102* -f > > to get the rest of them. > > Best bet is to create a trigger to clean up that folder. I moved from MacOS > 9.x to Linux and never thought about this until 1 month later when I had > about 70,000 or so files in there :) > >> Mike > > Dale > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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Dale - I have a script that runs each night from cron as follows:#!/bin/shcd /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/WebCatalogEngine mv EmailCompleted EmailCompleted.old mkdir EmailCompleted chown www:ftpguest * chmod 770 EmailCompleted rm -R EmailCompleted.oldThis will remove the folder even if there are 20000 emails in there ..Alain> Mike, > > On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 03:26 AM, Michael Davis wrote: > > [snip] > >> Speaking of this problems with Emailer on OS X... I've got too many files >> in my EmailCompleted folder. rm * will not delete them. It reports /bin/ >> rm: Argument list too long. >> How do I delete all these files? > > do an ls to see what the filenames begin with, then you have the fun of > doing (for example) > > rm 1023* -f > rm 1024* -f > rm 1025* -f > > and so on. I find that if you have a full range of numbers from one to nine > as the last digit, you usually have to remove about 6 of them before you > can drop a number > rm 102* -f > > to get the rest of them. > > Best bet is to create a trigger to clean up that folder. I moved from MacOS > 9.x to Linux and never thought about this until 1 month later when I had > about 70,000 or so files in there :) > >> Mike > > Dale > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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