gdbmrecent-purge1

Usage

Overview

gdbmrecent is an add-on module for the JED editor that records the cursor positions of visited files, as well as some buffer local variables, and remember them later. gdbmrecent-purge allows the maintainance of gdbmrecent databases, e.g. through cron tables. Database entries older than `AGE' are purged.

`AGE' is age-since-last-view in seconds unless appended with `Y' (years), `O' (months), `W' (weeks), `D' (days), `H' (hours) or `M' (minutes), e.g., "2w" (2 weeks) or "19d" (19 days). The letters are case-insensitive. If `AGE' is zero the database will be cleared! To purge only non-existant files set `AGE'=10000000000 or some other large number.

Options

`-q --quiet'

Suppress normal output

`-dFILE --database=FILE'

Use `FILE' instead of the default `~/.jed/recent_db' as the gdbmrecent databse. If `FILE' does not exist, it will be created and contains an empty GDBM database.

Examples

Sample crontab entries for database maintenance:

       # Keep four weeks' worth of data
       02 00  *  *  *  /usr/bin/gdbmrecent-purge 4w

       # Keep four weeks' worth of data and shut your mouth
       02 00  *  *  *  /usr/bin/gdbmrecent-purge 4w -q

       # Purge only non-existant files
       02 00  *  *  *  /usr/bin/gdbmrecent-purge 0x7fffffff

       # Reset database every Monday
       02 00  *  *  1  /usr/bin/gdbmrecent-purge 0

       # Don't do anything
       02 00  *  *  *  /usr/bin/gdbmrecent-purge -1

Credits

This script was inspired on the jedstate command, which is now obsolete in Debian. Parts of this man page are copied verbatim from the man page of jedstate.