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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