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From: "Thomas Paulsen" <thomas.paulsen@firemail.de>
To: <arnold@skeeve.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Scratch files in csh
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:05:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb4cb0f7f93c94d11447cf59020f8ffa@firemail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201906051250.x55CoSxK005467@freefriends.org>


--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
Von: arnold@skeeve.com
Datum: 05.06.2019 14:50:28
An: tuhs@tuhs.org, edouardklein@gmail.com
Betreff: Re: [TUHS] Scratch files in csh

> 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 13:36 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
2019-06-05 13:05   ` Thomas Paulsen [this message]
2019-06-05 13:31   ` Clem Cole
2019-06-05 13:34     ` Clem Cole

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