Clean Backup Files
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This servicemenu contains two actions for directories:
"Delete backup files": deletes all files matching *~ in the selected directories.
"Move backup files to Trash": moves all files matching *~ to the Trash
16 years ago
1.0.2: Don't panic if a directory contains no backup files. Also, put the actions in a submenu. These fixes courtesy of Micha Scholl.
1.0.1: small improvement to install script.
1.0: Initial release
16 years ago
1.0.2: Don't panic if a directory contains no backup files. Also, put the actions in a submenu. These fixes courtesy of Micha Scholl.
1.0.1: small improvement to install script.
1.0: Initial release
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Clean Backup Files is part of KDE Themes and Extensions, which is supported by the following people:
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hayjay
16 years ago
On some Systems like my suse box the
call of
kde-config --localprefix
may result in a path with appending / so that you will have a // in the complete path
the following after the generation of complete paths will fix this:
PGLOBAL=${PGLOBAL/'\/\/'/'/'}
PLOCAL=${PLOCAL//'\/\/'/'/'}
KDIALOG=${KDIALOG//'\/\/'/'/'}
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LMCBoy
16 years ago
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hayjay
16 years ago
but i think there must be a problem without the fix but i do not remember what it was
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Hajo
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LMCBoy
16 years ago
Thanks Micha!
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LMCBoy
16 years ago
I'm the author of cleanbak. Please be aware that if you try to move backup files to Trash on a directory in which there are no backup files, you'll get some bizarre error message about the mv command not being recognized. I believe this error message appears because mv throws an error if the source file does not exist. I need to avoid or suppress this error, so that konqueror doesn't panic.
So, I have been trying for a few hours to write an Exec command using bash to check whether backup files exist before trying to move them, but I have not been successful. Here is my latest unsuccessful attempt:
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'path=%u; t=$path/*~; if [ $t != "$path/*~" ]; then mv -f $path/*~ ~/Desktop/Trash 2>/dev/null; fi'
So, if backup files exist, then t is a space-separated list of the backup files. If no backup files exist, then t is assigned the literal string "$path/*~" (with $path expanded). That's why I only execute the mv command if $t != "$path/*~". It's an ugly kludge, but it does work in a test shell script I wrote. It just doesn't work in the cleanbak.desktop file:
the mv command is never attempted, whether backup files exist or not.
If anyone has advice or ideas on how to make it work properly, please let me know!
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dschrader
16 years ago
for each in `ls -1 %u/*~`; do mv $each ~/Desktop/Trash/; done
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sarahb523
16 years ago
[ -e filename ]&& mv -f filename /mytrash
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LMCBoy
16 years ago
if [ -e %u/*~ ]; then mv -f %u/*~ ~/Desktop/Trash; fi
as you are suggesting, then the "*" is expanded to a space-separated list of all the matching files in the directory. -e expects only one argument, so the command fails.
That's why I was trying the more convoluted statement I originally posted.
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