On 2/11/24 03:14:49, William Kenworthy wrote:
[...]
It occurred to me fairly quickly after that press of RET that I
could have done well with a COW snapshot facility, something which
has been discussed at length on another recent thread. I even have
LVM on my machine for its RAID capabilities.
On 2/10/24 07:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, gentoo.
>
> I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository.
> This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is
>
> $ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm
>
>
Just as an aside: find supports the `-delete`
Hello, Bill.
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 10:14:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On 10/2/24 23:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository.
> > This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is
> > $ find . -name
On 10/2/24 23:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hello, gentoo.
I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository.
This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is
$ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm
. But for some reason, I typed
$ find . '*.elc' |
-- Original Message --
From "Alan Mackenzie"
To gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date 10.02.2024 16:56:25
Subject [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!
It could have been a lot worse. Boys and girls, don't use
$ find | xargs rm
unless you really know what yo
Hello, gentoo.
I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository.
This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is
$ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm
.. But for some reason, I typed
$ find . '*.elc' | xargs rm
.. I even carefully checked it
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