> As I am a crystallographer and not a programmer, could anyone suggest a
> bash script that will go through my hard drive deleting all the pesky
> "coot-backup" directories with their horribly long file names that
"find $HOME -name coot-backup -exec rm -r {} \;" should do the trick.
> zipping software cannot cope with? Also, in a future version of coot,
> would it be possible to change the names of the coot-backup files to
> something simpler e.g. just date and time (for instance something like
> 240409-1650.pdb)?
Not sure about zip, but I don't think tar has any issues with long
filenames (at least, I haven't run into any). I suspect that simpler
naming for backup files would make things more complex rather than less
(let's see, which of my 5 models corresponds to which backup files...).
Pete
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
