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From: Mike <mike@boobaz.net>
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Subject: OT: Re: how to make a directory link to /dev/null???
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That's a pretty good idea.  But if you'd still like to use your browser
cache you could use scripts to delete your cache (and other miscellaneous
files).  I have a generic script called "junkit" which takes a file or
directory as argument and, if it exists, it gets deleted.  Works great for
those pesky cookies and browser histories too!  Run that from cron once
(or more) a day and you're all set (assuming you've exited your browser):

#########################
#!/bin/sh
# If the specified file/directory exists, delete it.

arg=$1
if [ -d $arg ]; then
        rm -rf $arg
elif [ -w $arg ]; then
        rm -f $arg
else
        exit
fi
#########################

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-=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=-

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Steve Juranich wrote:

|You don't want to use the mkdir command before.  Just type
|
|ln -s /dev/null junk
|
|And that /should/ do the trick. I know that I used to have my
|~/.netscape/cache directory linked to /dev/null in the same way and that's 
|how I did it.  Worked like a charm.
|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Stephen W. Juranich								sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
|Electrical Engineering  	 	   http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
|University of Washington				http://truk.ee.washington.edu/ssli
|
|
|On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, F. Pascual wrote:
|
|> I would like to make a directory (call it 'junk') symbolically linked to /dev/null, such that when I transfer files to the directory 'junk', they get written to /dev/null.
|> 
|> however, when I do this:
|> 
|> mkdir junk
|> ln -s /dev/null junk
|> 
|> ...there is a symbolically linked _file_ contained within 'junk' to /dev/null; the entire directory itself is not linked to /dev/null.  I can still copy files to 'junk' and have then show up when I ls from within 'junk'; they don't get written to dev nu
|ll.
|> 
|> Anyone know how to create the link to /dev/null so that when anything gets written to the directory 'junk', it goes to /dev/null?
|> 
|> 
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