Louisville, KY
Greg is a retired neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky, with a long-standing interest in computers and programming, beginning with Fortran IV in the 1960s. When Linux and open source software came along, it kindled a commitment to learning more, and eventually contributing. He is a member of the Scribus Team.
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What's wrong with simple-scan?
I did something rather dumb recently. I downloaded a tar.gz file of a Scribus version and decided to unpack it. I thought that it was going to create its own directory when I unzipped, untarred it, but instead it unloaded everything in my Downloads directory. I put it off till yesterday to clear that all out, and it was /some/ task. I used Dolphin to display the files, and I did find out that I could add the last modified date. All the things I needed to get rid of had a date of 1/23/2022 and time between 11:14 and 11:16. Laboriously I went through and deleted or sent them to Trash.
Today, I find that I could have reduced the files/directories to a list and sorted them by modified date, which would have made the deletion much easier.
Next time, though, I think I'll make a shell script starting with 'ls -lt' as a reference, then 'ls -t > deletefiles.txt', deleting those from the list I want to keep and prepending each line with 'rm -r ' and making the file executable. On the other hand, I hope I don't have to do that again.