Hi Evert
Evert Meulie evert at witelcom.net writes:
that I can exclude the index.html?* wildcard...?
afaik there's no way (with official releases) to do this.
(If you mirror this site often, why not use a script and delete them
afterwards?)
That is not a bad idea either!
Does
The Gentoo forum provided me with the following script, that seems to do the
job:
for dir in $(find /path/to/downloads -type d); do
rm $dir/index.html?* rm $dir/index.html
done
(from http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-399594.html )
Regards,
Evert
Evert
A less resource intensive solution might be:
find . -name index*.html |xargs rm
Alan.
Evert Meulie wrote the following on 11/8/2005 2:58 AM:
The Gentoo forum provided me with the following script, that seems to
do the job:
for dir in $(find /path/to/downloads -type d); do
rm
But that would also wipe out all legitimate index.html files, right? ;-)
Evert
Alan.Hall wrote:
A less resource intensive solution might be:
find . -name index*.html |xargs rm
Alan.
Evert Meulie wrote the following on 11/8/2005 2:58 AM:
The Gentoo forum provided me with the
So would the one in the for loop. I just used the ., but you could do
the same path as in the for loop:
find /path/to/downloads -name index*.html |xargs rm
The problem with specifying the /path/to/downloads is that if the
contents are very large, some systems will error with the The
This line:
rm $dir/index.html?* rm $dir/index.html
says:
If (the files $dir/index.html?* exists ) then
delete $dir/index.html?*
delete $dir/index.html
end if
HTH
Oliver
Alan.Hall wrote:
So would the one in the for loop. I just used the ., but you could
do the same path as in the for
Hi!
Thanks for the reply. Since I have no control over the server from which I'm pulling the mirror AND I do not want to live with these files ( 8-) ), I was wondering whether there's a way to exclude
certain file names, so that I can exclude the index.html?* wildcard...?
Regards,
Tobias Tiederle wrote:
Evert Meulie schrieb:
Hi!
Thanks for the reply. Since I have no control over the server from
which I'm pulling the mirror AND I do not want to live with these
files ( 8-) ), I was wondering whether there's a way to exclude
certain file names, so that I can exclude
