Hi All,

I want to know how to grep and delete (remove) files .

What I need is that there are some unwanted out going mails in the queue in my Centos 4.4 Sendmail Server. I can find them with the below commad.

 mailq /var/spool/mqueue/ |grep '<>'

Then It displays all the mails of that type withg their ids in the following way.

[root@gateway ~]# mailq /var/spool/mqueue/ |grep '<>'
kA63ZwJT007450    13864 Mon Nov  6 09:05 <>
kA63LqO3004442     4110 Mon Nov  6 08:51 <>
kA63V7Tn006327    16913 Mon Nov  6 09:01 <>
kA62vH4t031111    13880 Mon Nov  6 08:27 <>
kA62r6WW030077    13975 Mon Nov  6 08:23 <>
kA63BxYQ002455    16443 Mon Nov  6 08:41 <>
kA62MW0w023058    13536 Mon Nov  6 07:52 <>
kA62jQah028236    13625 Mon Nov  6 08:15 <>
kA62gLTw027445*   13710 Mon Nov  6 08:12 <>
kA62JXwd022569    13849 Mon Nov  6 07:49 <>
kA62idkg028035    13949 Mon Nov  6 08:14 <>
kA62PEHX023554*   14152 Mon Nov  6 07:55 <>
kA62W7Dd024920    14203 Mon Nov  6 08:02 <>
kA62TtJn024569    14245 Mon Nov  6 07:59 <>
kA62TU2j024446    14262 Mon Nov  6 07:59 <>
kA62ZL0E025726    15878 Mon Nov  6 08:05 <>
kA62MW6J023059    17106 Mon Nov  6 07:52 <>
kA6266rV019846    13678 Mon Nov  6 07:36 <>
kA62FXCd021741    13693 Mon Nov  6 07:45 <>
kA626v5u020008    13718 Mon Nov  6 07:36 <>
kA62X36L025101    13873 Mon Nov  6 08:03 <>
kA62Xd6u025234    13901 Mon Nov  6 08:03 <>
kA62RMT8023973    14008 Mon Nov  6 07:57 <>
kA62Ufi6024703    14014 Mon Nov  6 08:00 <>
kA62JxSm022664    14044 Mon Nov  6 07:49 <>
kA62Q0Sd023738    14057 Mon Nov  6 07:56 <>
kA62VgKI024882    14116 Mon Nov  6 08:01 <>
kA62QmtQ023890    14129 Mon Nov  6 07:56 <>
kA623NxG019271    13740 Mon Nov  6 07:33 <>
kA620tLk018801    14004 Mon Nov  6 07:30 <>
kA61q1PS017035    14094 Mon Nov  6 07:22 <>
kA6215S7018835    14154 Mon Nov  6 07:31 <>
kA61kYX8015811    13536 Mon Nov  6 07:16 <>
kA61c63T014124    13811 Mon Nov  6 07:08 <>
kA61WhXL013089    10232 Mon Nov  6 07:02 <>


Now I want to know how to remove them.

Then I can set up a crontab to do it evey 5 minutues.

Any help .. pls




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Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya


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Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya