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How To Manage Your Home Directory?
gustgr writes "There are times I got surprised after running ls in my $HOME directory. It is filled with trash, test files, directories that were supposed to be only temporary, ascii files with quick notes and all sort of stuff. In other words, it is a complete mess. Then I remove the trash, clean up the directories, run the mv command a few times and everything looks good and normal again. Two weeks later the disorder is back and I have to handle it again. How do you manage your home directory in order to keep it clean? Are your homes a mess too?" I usually keep folders labeled "audible," "visible," "legible," and "work," and subfolders within these that are at least mostly consistent between computers / drives; every day or so I sweep loose files into these, then open each folder, sort, repeat. How do you sort your data?
Anything I want to get rid of, I put in the /bin. Stuff I can't really categorise I put in /etc, and all the stuff I use goes in /usr.
That man tried to kill mah Daddy
This is easy. Pornographic movies go in the /vids directory, while pornographic images go in the /pics directory.
3,200+ directories of organised pr0n? Nice.
Simply give all your files names starting with '.'.
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This is my way.. I stick everything on the desktop, then when desktop is full I make a folder called stuff and move everything into it. rinse, repeat if you get too many folders called stuff2 stuff3 stuff50 whatever, just make a new folder and put all the other folders inside it :)
cd; find . -atime gt 30 -print | xargs rm -f
Best when modified and run as root over luser dirs, of course. Quotas are for sissies.
That's funny, I was thinking of suggesting 'animal', 'vegetable', 'mineral', etc...
Or perhaps using the 'Kingdom', 'Phylum', 'Class', etc... schema.
This is about a professor of mine from the University of Chicago who is a head honcho at Argonne Labs. Apparently, he's had a reputation for some years of having the most disgusting ~home directory. They eventually made a game about it: what they used to do was somebody would type 'ls' and someone else would get on a bike. Then they'd hit enter and they'd try to do laps around the server room until the ls stopped. I think their record was something around 14.
--Stephen
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Don't forget ~/sourcecode for pr0n - the wife will never think to look there.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
nono!! that's ~/caseydonovan/ Sheesh!!!
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know when your gonna get food poisoning.
I'd be impressed if my girlfriend managed to figure out a unix machine enough to browse directories. :)
Pretty Pictures!
I do that too. Neat idea.
/bin/*.* every thirty minutes.
I've also got cron jobs to rm -rf
One time, my wife wanted to browse the web on my computer so that she wouldn't have to boot up her Windows computer. I fired up Lynx for her and I was never asked again (I'm guess that the Big Brother website is not Lynx friendly).