Re: Customizing texutil --purge

[Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>]

mari.voipio@iki.fi writes:

> The "Texutil explained" says on page 2
> "texutil ­purge
> Afterwards, TEXutil reports the number of bytes regained. Optionally, you
> can pass a file pattern, thereby limiting the cleansing."
>
> As I'm a dummy, I don't seem to be able to put this in practice. I would
> like to get rid of the *.tuo files (and some others as well), so I tried

Marie,

there is no way to get rid of the tuo files with texutil. With the
optional argument, you can *limit* the cleansing. That means, reduce
the number of files being erased. 

For example, let's say you have a file called "finland.tex" and
"snow.tex" together with all the messy context help files. Now you
want to get rid of all the "snow" stuff but keep all the files for
"finland.tex" If the texutil command would work how it should [1]
then saying

texutil --purge snow

would delete the 
snow-mpgraph.mp, snow.tui, snow.log etc. 

but leave all "finland" files in the directory.


Patrick

[1] the pattern in texutil for removing files is not useable on
unix. I had good experience with 

      { $pattern .= "*.*" }

line 2685. It is now

      { $pattern .= "-.*" }

but this will probably not match any files around. (Perhaps there are
some obscure files that I don't know of.) Hans, could you change this
in texutil?


Patrick