updatedb script for Cygwin

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#!/bin/bash

updatedb –prunepaths=’
/proc /cygdrive/c/program_disk/cygwin
/cygdrive/c/Documents.and.Settings/[^/]*/Local.Settings/Temp
/cygdrive/c/Program.Files
/cygdrive/c/ProgramData
/cygdrive/c/Windows
/cygdrive/[^/]*/System.Volume.Information
/cygdrive/c/$Recycle.Bin
/home/hongyu.zhang/dumpster

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A safe program to replace unix command ‘rm’

[sourcecode]
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

## A safer program to replace unix command "rm"
## Author: Hongyu Zhang

if($#ARGV < 0) {
die("Usage: $0 filename\n");
}

$dir = `echo ~/dumpster`;
chomp $dir;
mkdir $dir unless(-d $dir);

for($i=0; $i<=$#ARGV; $i++) {
croak("Directory $ARGV[$i] not existed") unless(-e $ARGV[$i]);
my @arr = split /\//, $ARGV[$i];
if(-e "$dir/$arr[$#arr]") {
$command = "rm -rf $dir/$arr[$#arr]";
system("$command");
croak("error running command: $command") if($?);
}

$command = "mv -fv $ARGV[$i] $dir";
system("$command");
croak("error running command: $command") if($?);
}
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