Purging files

Purging files

[Nigel King]

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Enclosed is a script for purging the debris left behind by texexec
compilation. 

After some time using ConTeXt I find the disc gets many extra files and it
becomes difficult to find the files of interest.

It should work on Unix and Linux systems. It looks for *.tuo files in all of
the directories in /Users/ by default. Wherever it finds one it first runs
texutil --purge and then deletes the tuo file.

Install in your bin folder and then run rehash. The command texpurge.tcsh
should now be active. The full command is 'texpurge.tcsh <directory>' where
directory is the top of the search tree.

Use with caution this is a powerful command. It assumes that *.tuo files are
exclusively for ConTeXt.

regards
-- 
Nigel

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#!/usr/bin/tclsh
# Install Mathematica fonts into tetex

set startdir [lindex $argv 0]
if {$startdir == ""} {
  set startdir "/Users"
}

puts "find $startdir -name *.tuo"

set files [split [exec find $startdir -name "*.tuo"] "\n"]
puts "files = $files"
foreach file $files {
  set dir [file dirname $file]
  puts "dir = $dir"
  cd $dir
  exec texutil --purge ;# >&@ stdout
  file delete $file
}

Re: Purging files

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am Sonntag, 28. April 2002 23:56 schrieb Nigel King:
> Enclosed is a script for purging the debris left behind by texexec
> compilation.

did you try "texutil --purge" before?

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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