Re: Your idea on how to detect random directory names

> On Dec 9, 2023, at 00:37, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am writing a clean up routine to relive my spot back ups
> of junk in Blink browser directories that are meaningless to
> a backup and that take up a lot of space.
> 
> These directories are long and have random characters
> for files names, such as "adcocjohghhfpidemphmcmlmhnfgikei"
> 
> How who you go about figuring out who was random and
> who was not.  I am thinking first the length and then
> the absence of capitol letters and spaces and underscores.
> 
> Your take?


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# Brave Browser temp directories: exactly 32 contiguous lowercase alpha characters.
my $brave_junk_directories_re = / ^ <[a..z]> ** 32 $ /;
my %to_skip = @filenames.grep($brave_junk_directories_re).Set;

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Hope this helps,
Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)