Re: "tidy" not deleting files from the future

[Brendan Strejcek]

Paul Krizak wrote:

> yeah that's not exactly what I'm looking for either. It doesn't scale
> at all for large groups of files, nevermind big trees of stuff (for
> example, we delete /usr/local, all of it, during install).

How does tidy scale better? You could use IsDir rather than FileExists
along with the -r option or "find" with some criteria and a -exec
option.

Here is a hack to get a big recursive delete to return quickly:

    /bin/sh -c '( /bin/rm -rf /some/path & )'

> Usually when we need to do a true "force" of a delete, we just do a
> shellcommand of rm -f, and let it keep trying to delete the missing
> files forever.

Hmm, I would at least wrap it with a class like my previous example.

> I'd much rather use tidy in all situations, however.

"disable" might also be an option.

Best,
Brendan

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