Deleting empty folders

Samuel Williams space.ship.traveller at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 10:48:24 UTC 2015


Thanks Hardy. I have 1600 folders to delete.. in the end I did find -type d
-name "* 1" -exec rm -r {} \;

On 21 March 2015 at 21:22, Hardy Flor <HFlor at gmx.de> wrote:

> With
> doveadm mailbox status -u ... messages"*"
> There is a list of folders and the number of messages and then with
> doveadm mailbox delete -u ... "<name>"
> to delete.
>
> Am 20.03.2015 um 21:18 schrieb Samuel Williams:
>
>  So, along with the problem of lots of folders ending in 1 1 1 1, I'd like
>> to have a strategy to delete these.
>>
>> I was trying to understand if it is possible to use
>> http://linux.die.net/man/1/doveadm-expunge to delete empty folders, but
>> without also deleting messages? Is this possible and if so what is the
>> syntax?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Samuel
>>
>


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