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From: khera@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: # signs in inbox
Summary: how i deal with it.
Message-ID: <12979@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 88 21:51:01 GMT
References: <8812011831.aa18248@ICS.UCI.EDU>
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In article <8812011831.aa18248@ICS.UCI.EDU> gaspar@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Al Gaspar) writes:
>
>I notice that when I refile items from my inbox the orignal messages
>are stored in files with the same number but with a '#' sign in
>the first position. Are these removed by mh? How? I can do it
>at the shell of course, but it seems so inelegant :-).
> ...
>Al Gaspar
In my installation of mh, deleted and refiled messages are renamed to have
a comma ``,'' before them. i take care of these files with my .logout
file. comma-files that have not been modified in two or more days are
deleted.
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if ( "$HOST" == "romeo" ) then
find `mhpath +` -name ,\* -mtime +2 -exec rm -f \{\} \; &
endif
clear
echo Goodbye
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