Extra MAIL messages (cobwebs)

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Fri Sep 27 03:36:13 AEST 1985


> Here's a handy little program that points out the mailboxes
> which are unusually large or unusually old -- cobwebs
> ... [there follows about 300 lines of C]

What's wrong with

	find /usr/spool/mail -type f '(' -size +50 -o -atime +30 ')' -print

(Find all mailboxes which are bigger than 50 blocks or have not been
read in the last 30 days, and print their names.)
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry



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