Re: Reliable/safe way of removing empty maildirs?

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>]

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* Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> [12-07-07 01:38]:
> Yeah, but without even invoking find:
> 
>   rmdir dir/new dir/tmp dir/cur dir \
>   || mkdir -p dir/new dir/tmp dir/cur
> 
> Robust, safe, trivial.
> 
> People always seem to forget that rmdir is perfectly safe, in that it
> won't remove empty directories.
^^^^^^^^^^^
*only* removes empty directories   :^)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


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