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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, edouardklein@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Scratch files in csh
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:50:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201906051250.x55CoSxK005467@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blzcmckd.fsf@plume.lan>

Edouard Klein <edouardklein@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I saw this on  https://old.reddit.com/r/unix :
>
> http://blog.snailtext.com/posts/no-itch-to-scratch.html
>
> It's about (the lack of) scratch files in csh. Maybe somebody here know
> what happened to the feature ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Edouard.

From the phraseology in the paper ("The system will remove ....") it sounds
to me like it was not a csh feature at all, but rather that the UCB
systems had a cron job to run something like

	find / -name '#*' -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

It's easy enough to research this in the archives, if you have the energy.
:-)

HTH,

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-05 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-05 12:38 Edouard Klein
2019-06-05 12:50 ` arnold [this message]
2019-06-05 13:05   ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-06-05 13:31   ` Clem Cole
2019-06-05 13:34     ` Clem Cole

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