Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the .ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I understand the man page correctly about the CACHEDIR.TAG "magic file"? Assume I have a .cache directory like so...
[x8940][waltdnes][~] ll .cache total 64 drwx------ 12 waltdnes users 4096 Sep 5 10:50 . drwxr-xr-x 141 waltdnes users 20480 Sep 5 10:58 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 waltdnes users 0 Sep 5 10:50 CACHEDIR.TAG drwx------ 2 waltdnes users 4096 Aug 29 15:34 babl drwxr-xr-x 2 waltdnes users 4096 Sep 5 08:52 fontconfig drwxr-xr-x 3 waltdnes users 4096 Jun 11 2021 geeqie drwx------ 3 waltdnes users 4096 May 29 2021 gegl-0.4 drwxr-xr-x 3 waltdnes users 4096 May 29 2021 gimp drwx------ 3 waltdnes users 4096 May 27 2021 google-chrome drwx------ 2 waltdnes users 4096 Sep 5 10:23 mc drwxr-xr-x 258 waltdnes users 4096 Mar 24 2022 mesa_shader_cache drwx------ 3 waltdnes users 4096 May 25 2021 'moonchild productions' drwx------ 3 waltdnes users 4096 Nov 16 2021 thumbnails Would a script in /home like... #!/bin/bash tar --exclude-caches-under cvzf wdexport.tgz waltdnes ...skip files in that directory? I don't mind a few empty directories. -- I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
