From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: context --purgeall filename does not delete all temporary files
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 15:57:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f484ff1a-7d17-9a2f-7cf7-485f91f2fd2d@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YAK.7.77.849.2005210441100.479097@nqv-guvaxcnq>
On 5/21/2020 10:43 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2020, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> `context --purgeall filename` behaves differently from `context
>> --purgeall`.
>>
>> `context --purgeall` deletes all files with the name `*-temp-*`. I
>> would have thought that `context --purgeall filename` will delete all
>> files with the name `\jobname-temp-*` but it does not.
>>
>> Is there a way to delete the `\jobname-temp-*` files without requiring
>> an extra `context --purgeall` run? This is needed for deleting extra
>> files by `t-filter` module or deleting extra files generated by
>> automatic EPS to PDF conversion (with
>> figures.cachepaths.prefix="\jobname-temp"), etc.
>
> As an aside, I also noticed that in both mkiv and lmtx, mtx-context.lua has
>
> local extra_runfiles = {
> "^l_m_t_x_.-%.pdf$",
> }
>
> but graph-inc.lua has
>
> local defaultprefix = "m_k_i_v_"
>
> So, the default generated files are never deleted.
i can add it ... originally that was for the temporary pdf jobname i think
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-21 8:23 Aditya Mahajan
2020-05-21 8:43 ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-05-21 13:57 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2020-05-21 15:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
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