difficult-to-phrase question...

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 00:23:06 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

>
>        guys, (of either gender)
>
>        here's one that is a bit difficult to figure out how to ask, but
>        here's my first shot:
>
>        i'm looking for a file what contains string "S".  the filename
>        in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point.
>
>        i can use grep to find "S" and grep gives me the file[s] that
>        have the string.  now, is there any easy way of reading that
>        file, or deleting or otherwise munging that file?
>
>        nutshell is that every time i reboot (into kde), kde wastes
>        time/cpu spawning unwanted whatever: versions of konqueror, kttsd,
>        ksayit, &c.  [[i found these files in
>        ~/.kde/share/config/session, about  20, dated may, 09 to oct 08.
>        rm'ing the bunch would get rid of the instantiate problem, but
>        having a script to diddle with a found string "S" would be
>        useful esp'ly if the filename of pathname were long.
>
>        i'll mouse swipe the string and fname to prove my point.
>        thanks for any help.
>
>        gary
>
>        ps: if scripting this is too grizzly i'll do it in C and do an
>        inline post of src and example use.
>
>
>
>
> p4 16:18 <tao> [5058] rgr www.h-online
>  ~/.kde/share/config/session
>
> ./konqueror_101be1a31b9d1000124363848400000011730067_1243656675_647947:12:ViewT0_URL[$e]=
> http://www.h-online.com/open/Google-Wave-The-instant-wiki-communicator--/news/113410
>
> Have you tried logging out of kde with those apps closed?


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Adam Vande More


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