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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Moving folders with script Post 302393202 by ghimakiran on Monday 8th of February 2010 06:50:22 AM
Old 02-08-2010
Dear Zaxxon,

In my organization we are using Postfix as a mail server. I have be told to clean up old mail boxes with backup. There are more than 1,00,000 id's present in our server. now i have list of users (folders) name which first i have to take backup (copy to backup location) and delete the folders.

Regards,
Hima Kiran
 

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