Posted November 15, 2020
darktjm: I don't know what to say. Works for me. --check-orphans .\* catches any random file I put in a download dir. Of course, giving it such a generous pattern also picks up files it created and shouldn't delete (e.g. serials.txt and changelog*.html); this is a bug that should be fixed. The default pattern has always worked for me for installers & such (.*\.(zip|exe|bin|dmg|old|deb|tar\.gz|pkg|sh)$). It should definitely pick up any file with a ".sh" extension.
I was hoping that others had a setup like mine and could provide some feedback on how it is working.
darktjm: OK. I'll just shut up, then. Good luck.
After some more experimentation, I found that I was able to get it working by manually specifying the match string. For whatever reason, --check-orphans didn't work at all until I manually handed it the default string as an arg. Now it works both with args and using the defaults. Who knows /shrug. I was hoping that others had a setup like mine and could provide some feedback on how it is working.
Also, no one was telling you to shut up man. I do appreciate your help, I was merely answering your rather pointed question of "why even ask B", to which the answer was, because I'm not confident from the man page that I fully understand what the app is doing and was hoping others could help give me a level of understanding that the man page couldn't since a lack of understanding could potentially put my data at risk. Apologies if that came off as somehow telling you to shut up, wasn't the intent. Thanks for the help mate.
Post edited November 15, 2020 by agrider