Re: Your idea on how to detect random directory names

On 12/8/23 23:41, Paul Procacci wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 2:06 AM Bruce Gray <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>      > On Dec 9, 2023, at 00:37, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>      > 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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>     --snip--
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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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> I know this really wasn't mentioned clearly, but as a precaution you 
> might also want to consider filtering on whether the inode is 
> referencing a file or not:
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> my @to_skip = dir(".", test => { .IO.d && / ^ <[a..z]> ** 32 $ / } ) ;
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> If that possibility doesn't exist, then I personally would use:
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> my @to_skip = dir(".", test => { / ^ <[a..z]> ** 32 $ / } ) ;
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> As always, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
> 
> ~Paul

Hi Bruce and Paul,

    Thank you!

-T