[TUHS] Scratch files in csh

[Thomas Paulsen]

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Von: arnold at skeeve.com
Datum: 05.06.2019 14:50:28
An: tuhs at tuhs.org, edouardklein at gmail.com
Betreff: Re: [TUHS] Scratch files in csh

> Edouard Klein <edouardklein at 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
>