From: Akihiko Hohji <akhst7@me.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>,
Gabor Maghera <gmaghera@gmail.com>
Cc: "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: newbie rm --^file question
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 16:49:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8789C49A-57C0-49FA-BC1A-52DCBFBF88FB@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161225131004.ZM26673@torch.brasslantern.com>
Sorry. Actually extended glob was due to auto-correction by Apple Mail. I really typed in setopt extendedglob.
Either rm -rf with double “-“ ^file.ext.* or a single “-“ does not work. I get the same “no matches found” message. And there is no space in between “-“. I’ve gotten this approach with the double “-“ from a post in Stackoverflow. If I don’t add “*” at the end or begging of file name, it works fine.
To just give you more details, the following is the list of files in /System/Library/Caches;
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 544B Dec 16 21:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 92 root wheel 3.1K Dec 16 09:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204B Dec 15 21:47 com.apple.CVMS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 42K Oct 4 21:52 com.apple.Components2.SystemCache.Components
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 57K Sep 13 20:49 com.apple.Components2.SystemCache.QuickTimeComponents
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8.6K Dec 16 09:31 com.apple.IntlDataCache.le
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78K Dec 16 09:31 com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.kbdx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 21K Dec 16 09:35 com.apple.app-sandbox-cache.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41B Dec 16 09:32 com.apple.bootefisignature
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102B Dec 15 21:36 com.apple.bootstamps
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68B Dec 15 21:36 com.apple.corestorage
drwx------ 3 root wheel 102B Dec 17 22:30 com.apple.coresymbolicationd
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136B Dec 15 21:36 com.apple.kext.caches
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 23K Dec 16 21:53 com.apple.preferencepanes.systemcache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11K Dec 16 09:35 com.apple.xpc.extensions.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 203K Dec 16 09:35 com.apple.xpchelper.cache
I’d like to get rid of directories and files except com.apple.IntlDataCche.le and com.apple.IntlDataCche.le.kbdx.
And I did;
setopt extendedglob
rm -rf -^com.apple.IntlDataCache.*
Then I get zsh: no matches found: -^com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.*
Again my system is
sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.12.2
BuildVersion: 16C67
Thanks.
AH
> On Dec 25, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 25, 7:22pm, Hoji, Akihiko wrote:
> }
> } setopt extended glob
>
> If you literally did that, you should have gotten an error message; there
> is no option named "extended" although there is one named "glob".
>
> You can use underscores or hyphens between words (actually, between any
> two letters) in option names, but not spaces.
>
> setopt extendedglob
> setopt extended_glob
> setopt extended-glob
> setopt EX_tend-ed_GLOB
>
> } rm -rf -^file.ext.*
>
> Is there a space missing there between the second "-" and the "^" ? Or
> do the files you want to remove really have names beginning with "-" ?
>
> } I would appreciate a poster as to what I am doing wrong.
>
> Other than misplaced spacing, you seem to have it; see Gabor's example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-25 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-25 19:22 Hoji, Akihiko
2016-12-25 20:45 ` Gabor Maghera
2016-12-25 20:49 ` Hoji, Akihiko
2016-12-25 20:51 ` Gabor Maghera
2016-12-25 21:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-25 21:49 ` Akihiko Hohji [this message]
2016-12-25 22:47 ` Gabor Maghera
2016-12-25 23:02 ` Akihiko Hohji
2016-12-27 20:23 ` Roman Neuhauser
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