5 Jun
2019
5 Jun
'19
12:50 p.m.
Edouard Klein <edouardklein(a)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