[jgift]

The Finder Find doesn't seem to be able to search within .apps, even when given a specific directory, so I was thinking of a shell script taht I can daisy chain. ie.

find all french.lproj in /Applications and delete
find all russian.lproj...
etc.

I know Youpi and other apps exist. Thanks.

[[APi]TheMan]

Popular topic. The exact command had escaped me until I did a simple search on google. This should work:

Code:
find / \! -name "English.lproj" -name "*.lproj" -type d -exec rm -rf -- { } \; -prune

This works well, but it's not perfect. If you actually run it as root you'll end up deleting a lot of stuff that probably shouldn't be deleted. Just run the following command (with the delete stuff taken out) to see exactly what will be deleted.

Code:
find / \! -name "English.lproj" -name "*.lproj"

Just be careful, some applications may break if you go deleting files all willy nilly! It's only a couple hundred megs anyways

Maybe someone has a better method (or a sweet regular expression, I don't do regex, hah!).

[jgift]

That's a great start, thanks a lot.

[wataru]

I've been toying with this myself, and if you'd like to know what languages are most common on your system, run

Code:
find / -name "*.lproj" -exec basename {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

This will find all of the .lproj folders, count them, and list them in order of most to least numerous.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally Posted by wataru

I've been toying with this myself, and if you'd like to know what languages are most common on your system, run

Code:
find / -name "*.lproj" -exec basename {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

This will find all of the .lproj folders, count them, and list them in order of most to least numerous.

Hey that's pretty cool, thanks.

[wataru]

I played around with this stuff some more and came up with these functions:

Code:
function flproj () {
	if [[ -d "$1" ]]; then
		LOC="$1"
	else
		LOC="$PWD"
	fi
	find "$LOC" -name "*.lproj" -exec basename "{}" \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
}

function rmlproj () {
	if [[ -d "$1" ]]; then
		LOC="$1"
	else
		echo "USAGE: rmlproj DIR LANG"
		return 1
	fi
	until [[ -z "$2" ]]; do
		echo "Deleting all $2.lproj in $LOC"
		find "$LOC" -name "$2.lproj" -exec rm -rf "{}" \; 2> /dev/null
		shift
	done
}

Put those in your ~/.profile and you can use them to single out and delete the most numerous .lproj folders.

By the way, what happened to [ code] blocks being non-wrapping and whitespace-preserving?