On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > Cosmetic note for maintainer: > > [snip] > # cleanup old fonts > rm $(find /var/lib/texmf /var/spool/texmf /var/cache/fonts -name 'feta*pk' > -or -name 'feta*tfm' -or -name 'parmesan*pk' -or -name 'parmesan*tfm') > [\snip] > > find: /var/lib/texmf: No such file or directory > find: /var/spool/texmf: No such file or directory > rm: too few arguments > Try `rm --help' for more information. > > Maybe add a -f to rm? That would eliminate one of the error messages. > > As for the directory errors from find, I'm not sure how to avoid > them without pre-testing for their existance in the script and > setting a variable appropriately. I understand that may add too much > complexity just to avoid a harmless error message.
find /var/lib/texmf /var/spool/texmf /var/cache/fonts \ -name 'feta*pk' -or -name 'feta*tfm' -or -name 'parmesan*pk' -or \ -name 'parmesan*tfm' 2>/dev/null | xargs -r rm should do it. If you're paranoid, use -print0 and give xargs the -0 arg. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/