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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:19:21 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: finding every file not in a list
Message-ID:  <20100128101921.GA28664@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <20100128101351.GA27490@guilt.hydra>
References:  <4B6090FC.4070002@gmail.com> <20100128101351.GA27490@guilt.hydra>

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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:13:51AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
>=20
>     losers    =3D Dir["#{Dir.getwd}/**/*"]
>     keepers   =3D IO.readlines ARGV.shift
>     startpath =3D ARGV.shift
>=20
>     if startpath
>       Dir.chdir startpath
>     end

Oops.  Speaking of using at your own risk . . .

That line that reads `losers    =3D Dir["#{Dir.getwd}/**/*"]` should be
*after* the conditional block.  Thus, the above quoted code should look
like this instead:

     keepers   =3D IO.readlines ARGV.shift
     startpath =3D ARGV.shift
    =20
     if startpath
       Dir.chdir startpath
     end

     losers    =3D Dir["#{Dir.getwd}/**/*"]

=2E . . otherwise you might end up deleting a bunch of files in the wrong
part of the directory hierarchy if you execute the program from somewhere
other than where you want files deleted.  I guess I shouldn't have gotten
fancy and tried to provide a way to execute it from anywhere in the
filesystem.  Sorry about that.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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