people,
for reasons i don't understand completely, i wind up with
*wav* files in my /tmp/kde-kline/* directory. plus othr misc junk
files.
why is this script not finding them?
wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
if [ -s $wav ]
then
echo "Wav files found"
Written by Gary Kline on 07/14/08 15:12>>
> people,
>
> for reasons i don't understand completely, i wind up with
> *wav* files in my /tmp/kde-kline/* directory. plus othr misc junk
> files.
>
> why is this script not finding them?
>
>
> wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
On Monday 14 July 2008 22:12:47 Gary Kline wrote:
> people,
>
> for reasons i don't understand completely, i wind up with
> *wav* files in my /tmp/kde-kline/* directory. plus othr misc junk
> files.
>
> why is this script not finding them?
>
>
> wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wa
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:12:47PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> why is this script not finding them?
>
>
> wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
>
> if [ -s $wav ]
As others have pointed out because if "/tmp/kde-kline/file1.wav
/tmp/kde-kline/file2.wav" is found the -s will fail because $wav isn't
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 04:09:24PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:12:47PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > why is this script not finding them?
> >
> >
> > wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
> >
> > if [ -s $wav ]
>
> As others have pointed out because if "/tmp/kde-kline/fi
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:56:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> But as you point out, the followingisthat much more effective.
> or at least lesss typing.
>
> >
> > But why do it the hard way?
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > /bin/rm /tmp/kde-kline/*wav > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> with this,
>
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:56:27 -0700
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're right of course, and for the most bothersome hundreds
> of wav and log files this works:
You might also consider adding clear_tmp_enable=yes to rc.conf, and
daily_clean_tmps_enable=yes to periodic.conf, to del
why is this script not finding them?
wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
why you put \ before *
if [ -s $wav ]
then
echo "Wav files found";
ls -l $wav;
/bin/rm ${wav};
else
echo "No wav files in /tmp/kde-kline";
exit 0;
fi
do i have to cd to /tm
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:37:02AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > why is this script not finding them?
> >
> >
> >wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
>
> why you put \ before *
>
to allow the shell to catch various formsof strings with "wav"
embedded.
--
Gary Kline [EMAI
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:35:00AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:37:02AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > >
> > > why is this script not finding them?
> > >
> > >
> > >wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
> >
> > why you put \ before *
>
> to allow the shell to catch variou
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:02:24PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:35:00AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:37:02AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > why is this script not finding them?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
> >
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:24 -0700
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks for this clarification! until yesterday, whe you
> mmentioned blanks[whitespace], as id a song title, i hadn't
> tought about songs like "Not Ready to Make Nice.ogg" e.g.
> I am not sure wh
On Jul 15, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:02:24PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
Is probably best to postpone wildcard expansion until the last moment
because if any of the filenames contain spaces the space will
probably
cause a break between arguments. The first
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> you can always do
>
> find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname "*wav" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf
>
> the advantage over doing using rm * or for * in ... is that if you
> have LOTS of files, the expanded list of files may be too much. find |
> xargs will
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Wayne Sierke said:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > you can always do
> >
> > find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname "*wav" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf
> >
> > the advantage over doing using rm * or for * in ... is that if
> > you have LOTS of files, the expa
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:52:59 +0930
Wayne Sierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > you can always do
> >
> > find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname "*wav" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf
> >
> > the advantage over doing using rm * or for * in ... is that if y
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 15:01 +0100, RW wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:52:59 +0930
> Wayne Sierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > > you can always do
> > >
> > > find /tmp/kde-*/ -iname "*wav" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -vf
> > >
> > > t
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:08:56 +0930
Wayne Sierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Except that the -delete primary of find is not the equivalent of rm
> -vf, or even of just rm -f.
Obviously, but the -vf options weren't in the original script, they
were added as an illustration by an intermediate post.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:42:13PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
>
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:02:24PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> >>
[[ ... ]]
> > I am not sure why these players store the song in wav format
> > without deleting
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:24 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks for this clarification! until yesterday, whe you mmentioned
> blanks[whitespace], as id a song title, i hadn't tought about songs
> like "Not Ready to Make Nice.ogg" e.g. I am not sure why these
> players store the
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:19:49AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:24 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > thanks for this clarification! until yesterday, whe you mmentioned
> > blanks[whitespace], as id a song title, i hadn't tought about songs
> > like "No
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:32 -0700
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:42:13PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> > You might consider adding something like
> >
> > setenv TMPDIR /home/dkelly/tmp
> > setenv TMP /home/dkelly/tmp
There are also KDEVARTMP and KDETMP
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:35:21PM +0100, RW wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:32 -0700
> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:42:13PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
>
> > > You might consider adding something like
> > >
> > > setenv TMPDIR /home/dkelly/tmp
> > >
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