You can also exclude from the find command I believe, so for example, to find all files that are dot files, but leave .htaccess files alone, not that this would be anywhere near a safe idea, but it shows the process:
find . -type f \( -iname ".*" ! -iname ".htaccess" \) -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > True, it's not MacPorts' fault. Nor is it my fault. It's not practical to > safely avoid .mp for the beginnings of all things. Users can create imap mail > boxes and name them what they like. > > I just want to safely remove a slug of files that MacPorts put on my system > and then forgot about. Those files are there because at times it's been the > only way to get things installed/upgraded using MacPorts. I'm happy that > MacPorts didn't just clobber them but at some point I think I want these > removed from places like $prefix/bin/*.mp*. I'm just looking for an easy and > safe way to do this and find -name *.mp* rm scares me. It's easy but not safe. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
