Updated: Never — Philip's Blog

I spent much of today doing my annual "winter cleaning". For some reason, I have a feeling there should be a periodic script for this, preferably one which can read my mind.

Some notes:

• Many files named "foo", "tmp", "t" and "_" (am I the only one who likes to redirect stdout to _ "to make it easy to delete"?)
• A non-zero number of these files turned out to contain useful information. It seems I made that decision about some of the files earlier, because some were named "foo.keep".
• Curiously, I found not a singled file called "1" this year. A break from tradition.
• My "$HOME/tmp" directory contained more data than any other under my home directory.
• I discovered many config files bearing a comment "mangled pph 20071223". A year to the day since the last winter cleaning, in other words.

Productive day! In a tidy sort of way.

I also found a number of local pkgsrc patches, but I think I've sent most of the relevant ones (ie: suitable for human consumption) to Geert for committing to pkgsrc and/or upstream. I'll go through those in a bit more detail tomorrow and Thursday.