cleaning up

[Scott Haneda]

You can also exclude from the find command I believe, so for example, to find all files that are dot files, but leave .htaccess files alone, not that this would be anywhere near a safe idea, but it shows the process:

find . -type f \( -iname ".*" ! -iname ".htaccess" \)

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On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> True, it's not MacPorts' fault. Nor is it my fault. It's not practical to safely avoid .mp for the beginnings of all things. Users can create imap mail boxes and name them what they like.
> 
> I just want to safely remove a slug of files that MacPorts put on my system and then forgot about. Those files are there because at times it's been the only way to get things installed/upgraded using MacPorts. I'm happy that MacPorts didn't just clobber them but at some point I think I want these removed from places like $prefix/bin/*.mp*. I'm just looking for an easy and safe way to do this and find -name *.mp* rm scares me. It's easy but not safe.