On Tuesday 14 May 2002 2:41 pm, Charles Marcus wrote: > p.s. as a temporary workaround, is there a system level solution for hiding > hidden files/directories from normal users, so that even if they enable > 'View Hidden Files' from their preferred file manager, they would still not > see them?
Not that I know of, but I do have an idea. try the command; tar zcv `find -regex '\.\/\.\w*'` -f test.tgz in your home directory and make sure you get it exactly right. This will put all the files which are of the form ./.foobar and ./.foobar/whatever and put them into an archive. This could be put into a script something like this; #!/bin/bash cd /home for i in * do cd $i tar zcv `find -regex '\.\/\.\w*'` -f /someplacesafe/$i.tgz cd .. echo "user $i has been processed" done The find bit sorts out which directories and files are selected for archiving, and it may well be a bit too inclusive, but you can change this by replacing "find" with a list (only in " quotes if there are spaces involved) of the directories abd files you consider vital. This can be set up as an overnight job with cron, so that there is always yesterdays settings as a backup. So the most I can imagine someone loosing is a days setting changes, perhaps an addition to an addressbook or something. Mail is stored elsewhere hopefully. Then a script for easy retrieval can be set up. I will do it for you if you get stuck. Good luck -- Richard, Sheffield, UK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
