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On Saturday 21 November 2009 4:28:32 pm Simon Robert wrote: > Hello all > > I use a rather great application called Alexandria to look after my > extensive (vastly inconvenient according to some around here) collection > of SF books. > > It even works with the extremely odd, but $5 on ebay "cuecat" scanner > for ISBN codes. Downloads cover and details from Amazon. Worthwile > looking up the "cuecat" just for amusement > > - the dubious distinction as one of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All > Time" > > - fails to solve a problem which never existed > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat > > Anyhow the point of this mail is that although fab Alexandria will not > delete entries. (this project moves at glacial speed, but the likelyhood > of me learning Ruby and solving this problem before it forks is not > great). The book details are held in easy to read database files and I > want to be able to track down a file so I can delete it. > > A grep command like "grep Transition *.yaml" would be great, except as > far as I can figure one needs to specify a list of files. Is the a way > of using grep which would allow me to do the above? Or a similar > command? > > Thanks > > Simon I'm coming late to this thread which looks as if it's descended into a jolly command line beano. I also use Alexandria and would highly recommend it. I delete items by using a file browser on my home directory viewing hidden files. There is a directory for Alexandria which contains a directory for each library. Each database entry has 2 files, one for the book entry and one for the cover artwork with ISBN.yaml and ISBN.cover names. Identify the file from the ISBN or cover thumbnail and deleting these 2 files does the trick. George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html