Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Clean Temporary Files in Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The script purge_cache.sh is a good one for clean cache of various package managers and temporary files on Linux.

Bundle Resource Files into a Rust Application

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. The Rust macro include_str includes a UTF-8 encoded file as a string; the Rust macro include_bytes includes a file as a reference to a byte array. Both of those 2 macros load files into the Rust binary at compile time and consume memory at run time. It might not be a good idea to use them for large files!

Hands on the Glob Crate in Rust

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

The Rust crate glob behaves similarly to the Python library glob.