On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> > 2) assuming there is not, I want to make a script using only things
> > present in a "base system" to clean them up.
>
> Now that the mount points are escaped and contain the Windows volume roots
> starting with 3.6, here's my script. It uses bash/find/gawk. I'd welcome
> any ideas on improving it, I've only just started messing with gawk. (I'd
> started out doing grep/cut then xargs printf "%b\0" to unescape, but with
> gawk I can do that all in one program).
>
> It's in
> https://gist.github.com/jeremyd2019/4984ff0fa1f6fd8c99d7b8b244c52088
I decided to try the grep/cut/xargs/printf method again, and found it
shorter, so here it is. I also set up LC_CTYPE and LC_COLLATE to C.UTF-8
up front, in case some other locale/encoding is set up. I still have to
override this to C for the find, because it doesn't seem to like the
invalid unicode used by older Cygwin/MSYS2 versions for the binned files.
#!/bin/bash -ex
export LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8
IFS=. read -r cygmajor cygminor _ < <(uname -r)
declare -a roots
if [ "${cygmajor}" -gt 3 -o "${cygmajor}" -eq 3 -a "${cygminor}" -ge 6 ]; then
# as of cygwin 3.6, volume roots are parsable from /proc/mounts
# (noumount is the option that indicates a cygdrive mount)
readarray -t -d $'\0' roots < <(
cut -d' ' -f2,4 /proc/mounts | grep '\<noumount\>[^ ]*$' |
cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs -d'\n' printf '%b\0')
else
# before that, just punt and look at the root of the drive / is mounted on
root="$(cygpath -w /)"
roots=("$(cygpath -u "${root:0:2}")")
unset root
fi
declare -a trash
readarray -t -d $'\0' trash < <(
LC_CTYPE=C LC_COLLATE=C \
find "${roots[@]}" -maxdepth 1 -iname '$Recycle.Bin' -print0 |
LC_CTYPE=C LC_COLLATE=C \
find -files0-from - -maxdepth 2 \( -name $'.\uDC6D\uDC73\uDC79\uDC73*' -o \
-name $'.\uF76D\uF773\uF779\uF773*' -o \
-name '.msys*' -o \
-name $'.\uDC63\uDC79\uDC67*' -o \
-name $'.\uF763\uF779\uF767*' -o \
-name '.cyg*' \) -print0)
if (( ${#trash[@]} )); then
ls -la "${trash[@]}"
read -r -p "Remove? (y/N) "
if [[ "${REPLY^^}" == "Y" ]]; then
rm -f "${trash[@]}"
fi
fi
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