Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread craigw
Oh man that is so cool! Yeah, that's much easier. Thanks, I never knew about that. On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 02:50:38PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > I don't know how efficient your method is, but you can also browse/save > from the cache by using about:cache in the browser. > > craigw wrote: > > On

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread jeff
Travis Crump wrote: > > I don't know how efficient your method is, but you can also browse/save > from the cache by using about:cache in the browser. > not to worry...if you're browser is 'smart', it will name all the cache files starting with the word 'cache'...then just do rm -f cache* :) -j

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Travis Crump
I don't know how efficient your method is, but you can also browse/save from the cache by using about:cache in the browser. craigw wrote: On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 01:02:53PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: craigw wrote: Or at least make sure the cache is empty in all your browsers! Mozilla at le

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread craigw
On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 01:02:53PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > craigw wrote: > > Or at least make sure the cache is empty in all your browsers! > > Mozilla at least doesn't use real names for files, but instead gives all > the files in Cache a 8 charachter pseudo-hexadecimal > yeah I know, and

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Travis Crump
craigw wrote: Or at least make sure the cache is empty in all your browsers! Mozilla at least doesn't use real names for files, but instead gives all the files in Cache a 8 charachter pseudo-hexadecimal representation(presumably its internal representation is real hecadecimal) with a three c

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread jeff
i would like to thank you all for a show of hands. it worked great and i tested it with the different methods you all suggested. thanks again. more posts to come. :) -jeff find / \( -name \*.gif -o -name \*.jpg -o -name \*.jpeg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff -o -name \*.xpm \) -a -type f -e

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread craigw
On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 12:01:19AM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:05:33PM -0400, jeff wrote: > > Allan Wind wrote: > > > > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg \ > ^^ > > >

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:09:32AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020429 23:44]: > > Also, personally I like to force the period to be a period and > > not a wildcard for "any character", just in case there was a file > > named myfilewhichisjpg that I didn't wa

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020429 23:44]: > Also, personally I like to force the period to be a period and > not a wildcard for "any character", just in case there was a file > named myfilewhichisjpg that I didn't want to match. I also > usually put the -print explicitly. These are s

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 30, 2002, Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:05:33PM -0400, jeff wrote: > > Allan Wind wrote: > > > > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg \ > ^^ > > >

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Randy Orrison
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:05:11PM -0400, jeff wrote: | Allan Wind wrote: | > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg -o | -name \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | xargs -i | ln -s \{\} . | | this looks like it should indeed work...but when i | tr

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 29, 2002, jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: > > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg -o -name > > \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | xargs -i ln -s \{\} > > . > > > this looks like it should indeed work...but whe

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:05:33PM -0400, jeff wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: > > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg \ ^^ > > -o -name \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | \ > > xargs -i

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: > > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg -o -name > > \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | xargs -i ln -s \{\} > > . > > > this looks like it should indeed work...but when i > try it, i

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-04-29 12:05:33, jeff wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: > > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg -o -name > > \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | xargs -i ln -s \{\} > > . > > this looks like it should indeed work...but when i > try it, i get:

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-29 Thread jeff
Allan Wind wrote: > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg -o -name > \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | xargs -i ln -s \{\} . this looks like it should indeed work...but when i try it, i get: find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-29 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-04-29 02:34:05, jeff wrote: > help a scripting dummy here... > > made a /usr/local/share/icons dir. would like to > have symlinks to _all_ the xpm, gif, tiff, and jpg > icons on my drive...available for use as icons in > windowmaker... > > am i making sense? cd /usr/local/share/icons; fi

stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-29 Thread jeff
help a scripting dummy here... made a /usr/local/share/icons dir. would like to have symlinks to _all_ the xpm, gif, tiff, and jpg icons on my drive...available for use as icons in windowmaker... am i making sense? i await your lesson sensei... :) domo...arigato... -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,