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KDE Utils: cleanup, hlp

Posted 01-23-2012 at 07:16 AM by rainbowsally
Updated 01-23-2012 at 07:19 AM by rainbowsally

Tags computer mad science, kde, utilities

Features:

Cleanup old backup files quickly with feedback on operations being done.
Outstanding doc viewer that doesn't tie up your terminal.

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See the link below for the "how and why" to install these as symlinks in your HOME/bin folder. Need functions for 'browse', 'launch', 'tofile'? It's all here.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-tofile-34376/
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Often we end up with lots of files with tilde suffixes (~) after editing files. Here's a utility to descend several directory levels to quickly 'cleanup' these backups starting with the current directory.

file: cleanup
purpose: remove old backup files

Code:

#!/bin/sh

exists()  # not just a link
{
    if test -f "$1";then
    return 0    # ok
    else    return 1    # error
    fi
}

do_cleanup()
{
    for i in $1/*~
    do
        if exists "$i"; then
            echo "$i"
            rm -f "$i" >/dev/null
        fi
    done
    for i in $1/*.bak
    do
        if exists "$i"; then
            echo "$i"
            rm -f "$i" >/dev/null
        fi
    done

}


do_cleanup .
for i in * 
do 
    do_cleanup $i
done

for i in */*
do 
    do_cleanup $i
done

for i in */*/*
do 
    do_cleanup $i
done

for i in */*/*/*
do 
    do_cleanup $i
done

for i in */*/*/*/*
do 
    do_cleanup $i
done

# also remove the typical hidden backups
rm -f \.*~
rm -f */\.*~
rm -f */*/\.*~
rm -f */*/*/\.*~
rm -f */*/*/*/\.*~
rm -f */*/*/*/*/\.*~

echo
echo "done..."
echo

Here's a help display function similar to the 'browse' function but that opens info and man docs, beautifully formatted, for any linux command you need to look up.

file: hlp
purpose: view nice docs without tying up the terminal

Code:

#!/bin/sh

browser=konqueror
opt="info"

if [ "$1" = "-m" ];then
    opt="man"
    shift
else
if [ "$1" = "-i" ];then
    opt="info"
    shift
fi ;fi

if [ "$1" = "" ];then
  #update and view ~/bin docs
  echo "
  Please wait... updating ~/bin docs
  if this isn't what you wanted to do, add the subject
  you wanted help on on the command line
  "
  
  cd ~/bin
  ./update-docs.exec 2>/dev/null # suppress errors
else
  launch "$browser '$opt:$1' >/dev/null 2>&1" 
fi

Optimizations welcome. These are by now quite old but they work so I haven't felt much inspiration to rework them.

:-)

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