[X4U] Re: Adobe Apps crashing..

[Thane Heninger]

On Mar 22, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Tim Kinsella wrote:
>> On Mar 22, 2005, at 10:34 AM, PoolMouse wrote:
>>>
>>> log out before you go to sleep and then add a line to your 
>>> /etc/crontab file (or use a gui cron manager) that kicks in at 
>>> night:
>>>
>>> 	find -x / -type f -name 'AdobeFnt*.lst' -exec rm -f {} \;
>>
>> Yikes.
>> Wanna' tell me what that will do??
>> ...
> command					means
> ========				======
> ...
> -x							in a manner which is able to deal with files which have 
> spaces (*)

According to my man page:
	-x	The -x option prevents find from descending into directories that
		have a device number different than that of the file rom which
		the descent began.

(In other words, in this usage, it will restrict find to return only 
items on the startup disk.)

Thane