Re: How to auto delete removed file's undo/backup ?

Hi Linus,

On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 18:56:47 +0800
Linus Boyle <linusboyle@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Shlomi,
>
> thx for your humour, lol. I use GNU/linux, and maybe bash script can handle
> this quite well.
>
> I'm just wondering if I can achieve my goal easily, before I get my hand
> dirty to write the script.
>

see
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92346/why-does-find-mtime-1-only-return-files-older-than-2-days
and -print0 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs -0.


> Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org> 于2018年12月1日周六 下午5:58写道：
>
> > Hi Linus!
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:41:24 -0800 (PST)
> > Linus Boyle <linusboyle@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have setting in my .vimrc to put all the undo/backup in a specific
> > folder.
> > > And now it has taken up too much space(around a hundred megabytes, say).
> > Many
> > > files are no longer needed because the original file has been removed.
> > I'm
> > > not good at scripting and all I come up with is to parse the filename and
> > > test its existence. So I'm wondering if there're easy ways to clean them
> > up.
> > > any suggestion is welcome
> > >
> >
> > what is your OS and preferred scripting language / environment? See
> > https://www.quotes.net/quote/34583 .
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Linus Boyle
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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