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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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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-21 13:57 UTC|newest]

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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