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Re:Dotfile Madness by kragen on Sunday October 23, 2022 @11:08PM (#33312585)
I find it useful; I might want to version-control .config but definitely not .cache. And if the program is broken I might blow away .cache but not .config.
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Re:Dotfile Madness by fiddlerwoaroof on Sunday October 23, 2022 @11:22PM (#33312649)
That still works if it’s `~/.foo/cache`
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Re:Dotfile Madness by Macha on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:14AM (#33315687) 

    rm -r ~/.foo/cache ~/bar/cache ~/baz/data/app/cache [20 more apps..]
is less ergonomic than

    rm -r ~/.cache/\*
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Re:Dotfile Madness by Macha on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:31AM (#33318028)
I think HN escaped the * in that final line before I edited it into a code block and my edit window is expired so I can't fix it
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Re:Dotfile Madness by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:34AM (#33318070)
There’s always:

    rm -rf ~/.*/cache
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Re:Dotfile Madness by Macha on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:49AM (#33318291)
Assumes the app uses cache as it's cache, rather than names like dlcontent, bananas_content, storage.sqlite, assets, meta, $TIMESTAMP.txt etc.
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Re:Dotfile Madness by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:34PM (#33318905)
Well, I don’t mind standards, I just prefer all the files an app touches to be under a single root folder (that’s not just $HOME)
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