On 29-12-2011 17:12, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

On 12/29/2011 04:01 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 29-12-2011 07:24, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

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Hi there,

yesterday I ran the following command:

context --purgeall --environment=mysecondstyle.tex --mode=myexample.xml

I know that the source file is missing (I discovered it later). This is not my issue.

The problem is that the --purgeall option caused context to erase all ..log files contained in that directory. Instead of asking for a source file name, it deleted all .log files.

I'm afraid this is a bug, at least it shouldn't erase files that context didn't generate.

how should it know?

By name and by modification date and time.

But in any case, the following command:

context --purgeall

should give an error (missing document) before trying to purge all documents.

Well, I use it to really purge all those files, including logs (left overs from tests and such). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On 29-12-2011 21:35, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

I'm not sure whether I got it right: do you use "context --purgeall" instead of the Windows version of "rm *.log *.tuc" (and other file extensions)? (Sorry, I'm not proficient at Windows shell :-().

indeed, which is quite ok as often tex jobs run on their own path also, there is --purge (without all) that can be used

I guess that "context --purgeall *" would be a better choice, since the user explicitly asks to remove all files with the proper extensions.

even then it would be --pattern="*" as you don't want shell expansion messing things up

Otherwise one might accidentally (as I did yesterday) end deleting log files totally unrelated to ConTeXt or even TeX, such as log files,

sure, so don't use --purgeall then; it's quite unlikely that I will change this behaviour if only because I use it all over the place in scripts Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------