On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 July 2013 22:06:17 Yaro Yaro wrote: >> On Jul 2, 2013 3:49 PM, "Hendrik Boom" <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: >> > There are lots of .dotfiles cluttering my home directory. >> > >> > No doubt some of them are useful. >> > >> > Many, though, are probably remnants of packages of years past -- packages >> > I installed long ago, no longer need, and have removed. >> > >> > Is there any way of identifying which packages are using which dotfiles? >> > >> > And which ones are obsolete -- the user equivalent of configuration >> > files, which are properly tracked by the package manager? >> > >> > Should there be? >> > >> > -- hendrik > >> Package managers don't track .dotfiles. Those are created at runtime by >> your software. > > He knows that. He wants ot know how to identify which ones are no longer > needed. >
Short answer - no. Long answer (and this would be fun - post the script if you do this): Use a tool that shows what files are being accessed (like fuser, but you'll probably have better luck with strace or gdb) and use some expect like language (or IPC) to fire up the command (either through strace or gdb or quickly attach gdb to it) and see what files it looks for. Easiest would probably be to: find / type f -perm +111 | while read f; do dotfile-scraper $f; done I think the easiest is 'strace -f -s 1024 -e trace=stat64,read' and run until the volume of output decreases and then just kill the program (probably as a test user so you don't corrupt your own stuff). I don't think this is the answer you were looking and doubt you'll pursue this but, as I said, if you do I'd like to see the script / what you find. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAH_OBifn41iut5JfYSYmhM=Uh-qzSXz-Vgej=dPdOc4BQUq=m...@mail.gmail.com
