.desktop files cleanup script

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zdila

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Location: Slovakia (SK), Kosice (KE)

Occupation: Developer / Analyst

Friday, June 17th 2005, 7:38am

.desktop files cleanup script

Hi all

I've made a .desktop files cleanup script that moves all .desktop files having invalid Exec= to a backup directory. Run as root:

Source code

mkdir /backup

IFS="
"; for i in `find / -name '*.desktop'`; do grep -q '^Exec=' "$i" && (which `sed -n 's/^Exec=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p' "$i"` > /dev/null || (mkdir -p /backup/${i%`basename $i`}; mv "$i" /backup$i)); done

But remember I take no responsibility for possible harm caused by this script.
Enjoy.

PS: Hope I didn't discover a warm water :-)

Martin

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