sh_ivtool: a simple UI application for use in scripts

[JustForFun]

Take a look at this question on stackoverflow. Using isspace() also removes the newline at the end of the line which fgets() leaves there if the line is shorter than the supplied buffer.

[bogomil]

thank you, friends

[paolog]

hi

I'm a new owner of a pb touch (622) so I'm loading and erasing many things, even only to test purpose.

I noticed that in
/mnt/ext1/system/state

and in
/mnt/ext1/system/config/'Active Contents'

it left files related to deleted book even if you ask to optimize the database;

did anyone make a script to delete (even interactively) those files?

now I'm doing it by hand with poterm, but should be nice automate it

[rkomar]

I guess no one has such a script already. I don't think it needs to be interactive, because it just needs to find data in those directories that doesn't have an existing ebook for it, and then delete it. Thus, you wouldn't need to use the sh_ivtool application for interactivity. I think the script would be a lot simpler if it could use the Unix find utility to look for the .af0 files, since they are spread out in directories that match the structure where the ebooks are. If no one else comes up with such a script first, I'll try to write something over the next few days.

P.S. Deleting books using the Library application usually deletes the extra information, as well. If you are deleting using the USB connection, maybe you should use the Library app instead.

[paolog]

thanks rkmoar
the interaction could be useful in case one would save annotations and highlights that sometimes became complex


i use this this script named clean.app at the moment to delete empty dir

i cd to the directory because with busybox once i deleted anything!

#!/bin/sh

cd /mnt/ext1/system/state

path to find/find -depth -type d -epty - exec rmdir {} \;

cd /mnt/ext1/system/config/Active\ Contents

path to find/find -depth -type d -epty - exec rmdir {} \;

i've to study more to compare paths as you suggested

[rkomar]

I wrote a script last weekend, but put off uploading it because I wanted to include a version of find for the older 3XX ereader models. However, I'm not sure that the notes are in the same format on those devices, so I think I'll just release the script for the Pro models only.

The script deletes all the state data and notes for ebooks that aren't on the device any longer. To make the script simpler, I used find and bash, and included them in the zip file.

As you noted, deleting the notes may not be what is wanted. However, making the script interactive would make it tedious to use. If you want to save notes, I think it's better to just comment out the notes handling stuff in the script, and just use the Notes application to delete unwanted notes.

[paolog]

wow I'll test it
thanks a lot
paolo