On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > On Jan 11, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Michael Crawford wrote: > >> If you're worried about losing your payload data, rather than having >> find delete all the renamed files automatically, have it generate a >> list of the renamed files that you redirect into a text file. Examine >> that file by eye, manually remove any lines containing files that you >> don't want deleted, then delete the files named in the list by using >> the backquote shell construction: >> >> $ find BLAH > deleteme.txt >> >> (edit deleteme.txt, remove files that aren't to be deleted) >> >> $ rm `cat deleteme.txt` > > That is an easy and safe approach and the list is not all that long this > satisfies my needs. > > In the future I'll also use mv instead of rm incase things go really wrong. > If things are ok after a couple weeks I'll rm them.
Be careful with mv, it has caused me great pain in the past. mv can overwrite a file with no prompt if you tell it to do so, which I did. On a server, there tends to be a lot of files with the same names, so I ended up with the last file mv'd, and not the hundred of files I thought I was going to end up with. Just thought I would mention it, it bit me once, which is usually all it takes before I learn my lesson. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
