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Can it be used to stop OS X Spotlight from putting DS_store in every directory it sees? Edit based on gumby's response below: can it stop finder from littering
by beagle3 10y ago
Can it be used to stop OS X Spotlight from putting DS_store in every directory it sees?
Edit based on gumby's response below: can it stop finder from littering in every directory it sees?
- gumby 10y agoSpotlight isn't putting that file there; that's where the Finder stores the directory-specific preferences (window size/position, list vs icon display etc). If you don't use the Finder (which I mostly don't) then you'll never see these files. Spotlight maintains its own database in /
- swaits 10y agoI have this at the bottom of my .zshrc just for this reason: # remove any .DS_Store files # (run in a subshell to suppress background job number info being printed) ( ag --hidden -u -l -g '\.DS_Store$' |xargs -n 1 rm -f & ) > /dev/null 2>&1