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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Mail purger
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Date: 17 Jan 91 17:19:47 GMT
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I just thought I'd post a neat little alias I have since I have some time
to kill and nothing to do.

	alias purge 'find ~/Mail -name #\* -print | xargs /bin/rm'

Some people out there may be wondering why thier mail directories are
taking up so much space even though they may be reletively empty.
When rmm is used, MH adds a hash mark (#) to the beginning of the
filename of the message.  The message is not deleted.  This is good
because it serves as a backup feature, but it is also bad if you're
short of disk space and want to free some by removing Mail messages.

What this alias does is recursively go down through your mail directory
and find all files that start with a hash mark.  It then feeds this
list as arguments to rm.
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Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services
ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@[301.405.3689]