Script for friendlier home partition under other OS

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:55:23AM +0200, Gábor Iglói wrote:
>Only one thing remained now:
>
>To speed up things I should clear up before tarring ~/.thumbnails
>containing several MB of image thumbs and Firefox's page cache. The
>first is easy enough for me, but Firefox stores it's user spec things
>under a "randomsequence".default folder under ~/.mozilla/firefox. I
>managed to get this folders name with
>
>user at ubuntu1:~$ cat /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini | grep Path=
>Path=u8n5vr1q.default
>
>But how can I cut out the "u8n5vr1q.default" string from that command's
>output? I'd like to clear the
>/home/user/.mozilla/"randomsequence".default/Cache folder from my
>script.

Two options:

 1. The folder name ends with '.default' since it's the default user, so
    you can use ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default to get it. If you always
    use only one user then that should work.

 2. Building on your use of 'cat' above you will find that 'cut' is your
    friend:

    $ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilies.ini|grep Path|cut -f 2 -d =

Hope it helps.

/M

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