On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > cachemoney is a robust and flexible package cache cleaner with a variety > of options. Much credit goes to DJ Mills and Pat Brisbin for the ideas > behind this script. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <[email protected]> > --- > This sort of functionality has been in a few feature requests, and there exist > a number of tools that already provide this, but none flexible enough (or > portable enough) to be to my liking. This is all bash3 compat with awk, tested > on gawk 3.1.8, gawk 4.0.0, bwk (the one true), mawk, and busybox awk (which > fscking _sucks_) to do the heavy lifting (rather than bash4). It ends up being > insanely fast, with the drawback being that its dependent on the format of the > filename to find and consider packages for deletion. In other words, a valid > package tarball that isn't compliant with the extglob *.pkg.tar?(.+([^.])) > isn't going to be considered. > > I'm a fan of the name, but I'm also happy to hear alternatives. >
Without having tested it, that script might be something I will use but I don't like the current name. I just don't understand the 'money' part in it. A name like cachecleaner would be more intuitive.
