Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-23 Thread Steve Cookson
On 23-10-2014 15:01, James Lynes wrote: This approach is probably safer than just the warning note that I put in, but the list of files to be deleted is 21 printed pages, so it may not be practical to have that scroll across the screen. You couldn't really review it. Could you not just sho

Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-23 Thread James Lynes
Steve: This approach is probably safer than just the warning note that I put in, but the list of files to be deleted is 21 printed pages, so it may not be practical to have that scroll across the screen. You couldn't really review it. Maybe a pre-clean-out script to run the find command and outpu

Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-23 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, Actually, I've changed my mind, what about something recursive like this (I called it test.sh and it calls itself with a file redirect in it. We just type sh test.sh): #!/bin/bash # if [ -z "$1" ] then echo "These directories will be deleted:\n"; #