Re: [dev] XDG directories

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:45:40PM +0200, Martin Kopta wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:48:27AM +0200, Jakub Lach wrote:
>> > $ ls -d .* | wc -l
>> > 37
>> > $ ls -ld $HOME
>> > dr-x------ 27 dum8d0g users ...
>> >
>> >
>>
>> $ ls -d .* | wc -l
>> 47
>> $ ls -ld $HOME
>> drwxrwx--- 40 user ...
>>
>
>How do you prevent dotfiles/dotdirs beeing created?

My guess would be either rm(1) or not using crappy apps
(although admittedly some of the least crappy apps clutter your
home directory with them). Even with cleaning out useless
dot-files every few months, I still wind up with hundreds,
though.

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