From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: function for cleaning org-attach directories
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:43:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1zs46jm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2wpy0mohp.fsf@charm-wifi.irisa.fr
Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
> Hi Eric,
>
> On 2015-07-16 10:57, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I use org-attach a lot, and if you're not careful you can get a "data/"
>> directory of many gigabytes. Not a problem, until you want to rsync it
>> and it takes all day...
>>
>> I wrote this to clean my attach directories. I'm not sure how portable
>> it is (and I'm really not pleased with the (concat attach-dir "/" d "/"
>> d+)), but I'm posting it to see if it's useful to anyone.
>>
>> Comments/improvements welcome! If the final product is desirable, I can
>> work it up as a patch.
>
> This would be most useful indeed. One quick question: why do you use
> "rm" instead of "delete-file"?
Because I was copy-pasting from org-attach! The real question is: why
didn't I use `delete-directory' :)
I'll do another version!
E
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-16 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-16 8:57 function for cleaning org-attach directories Eric Abrahamsen
2015-07-16 9:38 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-07-16 12:43 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2015-07-17 5:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-07-17 15:01 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-07-18 3:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-07-20 15:04 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-08-01 9:23 ` [PATCH] " Eric Abrahamsen
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