I got Time Machine running and am VERY diligent with Unison :-)-O, but
of course once can always run ... rm -v ...
But,
find ~/ -name '*.lyx' -exec grep -h \\lyxformat {} \; | sort| uniq
shows that I have LyX files from 26 different versions lying around
:-)-O
el
On 2016-08-02 16:31, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:26:42 +0100
> Dr Eberhard Lisse <nos...@lisse.na> wrote:
>
>> find ~/ -name '*-lyxformat-*.lyx' -exec rm {] \;
>
> Danger Will Robinson!
>
> I personally would never run a one-liner that does deletions. My pencil
> has an eraser because I make mistakes. A mistake with such a one liner
> could do horrible things. I'd do something like this:
>
> find ~/ -name '*-lyxformat-*.lyx' > danger.sh
> ### Edit danger.sh, prepend each line with "rm "
> ### Completely check danger.sh
> . ./danger.sh
>
> My way is sort of like "What you see is what you get." The 1liner way
> is more like "You asked for it, you got it."
>
> Did I mention that I make mistakes.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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