[TriLUG] Re: command line: delete all mail in a folder

[Andrew Perrin]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, James Manning wrote:

> > Ive considered just deleting the entire file and using touch
> > to recreate an empty mbox folder, but there must be a more elegant
> > and safe way.
>
> I'm sure there's better routes, but this is what I have for a daily
> cron job - answer to the orig. question being "cp /dev/null foo"
>
> [snip]
>     cp /dev/null $SPAM_MBOX

I'd be more likely to simply:

echo "" > $SPAM_MBOX



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