liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) (07/24/90)
Lots of Mac programs produce exotic filenames containing things
like trademark symbols, those curly Fs that people use to
denote folders and so on. A recent case in point is the INIT
that Disinfectant 2.0 installs in your System Folder, which is
called "X Disinfectant INIT" where X is a diamond character (\327)
The A/UX shells are not 8-bit clean, so they strip off the top
bit, hence
echo *Disinf*
gives W Disinfectant INIT
So how do you remove the file that is causing your Mac session
to crash when it loads in this init?
Answer, find a way of passing the filename to rm without having
the shell process it first. The method I came up with is
find . -name "*Disinf*" -exec rm -i - {} \;
Translated into English this is
find search for things
. in the current directory and its subdirectories
-name whose name matches the pattern
"*Disinf*" pattern (in quotes so that the shell leaves it alone)
-exec for any matching file, execute the command
rm rm
-i interactive (i.e. prompts for yes/no with each file)
- all following arguments to rm are filenames
{} the name of the matching file
\; that's all (the \ prevents the shell from stealing the ;)
The important bit is that {} is passed from find directly to
the rm command without going through the annoying "strip the
parity bit" that csh insists on. Csh and tcsh fans can probably
make an alias which does this, and sh lovers will naturally
write a shell function for it.
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In article <2550@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
#Lots of Mac programs produce exotic filenames containing things
#like trademark symbols, those curly Fs that people use to
#denote folders and so on. A recent case in point is the INIT
#that Disinfectant 2.0 installs in your System Folder, which is
#called "X Disinfectant INIT" where X is a diamond character (\327)
#
#The A/UX shells are not 8-bit clean, so they strip off the top
#bit, hence
#
# echo *Disinf*
#gives W Disinfectant INIT
#
#So how do you remove the file that is causing your Mac session
#to crash when it loads in this init?
Your answer is quite helpful, and I will use it in the future, but
I didn't know it when I needed to get back up and running. What I ended
up doing was to use Macsbug to break on OpenResFile inside INIT 31. When
the failing INIT file (Suitcase* II, * stands for option-2) was opened,
I set ResErr to -1 so INIT 31 wouldn't load any INITs from it. This worked.
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