On 12/8/23 23:41, Paul Procacci wrote:
On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 2:06 AM Bruce Gray <robertbrucegr...@gmail.com <mailto:robertbrucegr...@gmail.com>> wrote:> On Dec 9, 2023, at 00:37, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am writing a clean up routine to relive my spot back ups > of junk in Blink browser directories that are meaningless to > a backup and that take up a lot of space. > > These directories are long and have random characters > for files names, such as "adcocjohghhfpidemphmcmlmhnfgikei" > > How who you go about figuring out who was random and > who was not. I am thinking first the length and then > the absence of capitol letters and spaces and underscores. > > Your take? --snip-- # Brave Browser temp directories: exactly 32 contiguous lowercase alpha characters. my $brave_junk_directories_re = / ^ <[a..z]> ** 32 $ /; my %to_skip = @filenames.grep($brave_junk_directories_re).Set;I know this really wasn't mentioned clearly, but as a precaution you might also want to consider filtering on whether the inode is referencing a file or not:my @to_skip = dir(".", test => { .IO.d && / ^ <[a..z]> ** 32 $ / } ) ; If that possibility doesn't exist, then I personally would use: my @to_skip = dir(".", test => { / ^ <[a..z]> ** 32 $ / } ) ; As always, there's more than one way to skin a cat. ~Paul
I was thinking of something silly, such as first checking that the length was 32 bits and then comparing the name against the name in lower case: $ raku ... [0] > my $x="abcde"; my $y="aBcde" [1] > say $x eq $x.lc True [1] > say $y eq $y.lc False
