-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
martin> there's cruft, but it's too complicated and while i should martin> configure it in the long run, for now i have thought of martin> something like the following, which can run for a while. i martin> took the output of a `find /` and deleted all lines martin> corresponding to inodes in the above special directories martin> (find has no exclude!!! wishlist!), and now i want to: look at -prune I use find $HOME -path '*/log' -prune -o \( -name '*.log' <SNIP> \) - -exec rm -Rv '{}' ';' to delete a whole heap of unneeded files (TeX's .log .aux etc) without touching the files in ~/log find also has a -not I use "dpkg --list |grep -v ^ii" to find old packages that haven't been purged, which isn't to many if you update with "apt-get --purge dist-upgrade" consistently. Cheers Joel - -- Go ahead try and spam me ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE8S8bqFgrYE4V82aYRAir2AJ9qrmp7emRoIBZZeJ6u46U19X7IPgCeMeyT AKYwaVXtnz/0r+bcuSiLL4s= =6D6U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----