On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 01:52:44AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a lot of *~ and *.bak files in my home directories, including > recent ones, and ones from several years ago. I'd like to set up a > good system that gets rid of old ones--say, older than a month. I also > would like them to go to the KDE trash bin.
Saving files in a trash bin... Maybe it's just me, but this doesn't sound good. If it's in the trash bin it is trash and it should be trashed, that is: thrown away. Apparently you are concerned about losing these files. Just do a 'mkdir ~/my-previous-backups/' and move them there. But suit yourself. :) > Anyway, I'm posting to see what other Debianites do to clean out their > old, unneeded files; what kinds of scripts, etc. Any general > suggestions? The 'find' program can be a big help here. The following line removes all files in the current dir (and all subdirs) that end with '~': find . -name '*~' | xargs rm This finds all files in the current dir (and all subdirs) that end with ',bak' and haven't been changed in the last 30 days: find . -name '*.bak' -ctime +30 Read the man or info file for find to get more ideas. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ GnuPG key | http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "Do only what only you can do." --- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
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