Dotfile Madness

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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