[moneydance] Moneydance 2008 final, and related news

[Dave Saville]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:21:15 -0400 (EDT), Scott Zahn wrote:

>On Mon, March 31, 2008 12:13, rader at hep.wisc.edu wrote:
>>
>>  > tar -cf - *.md|pgp  -cf >data.pgp
>>
>> xargs is good for this kinda thing...
>>
>>  find . -name '*.md' -print | xargs tar -cf - | pgp -cf > data.pgp
>>
>
>or he could keep the file globbing and write his command like this:
>
>tar -cf - -- *.md | pgp  -cf > data.pgp
>
>The double dash specifies the end of command line flags.
>
>Of course, the dash at the beginning of the filename seems a bit ugly to me. 
>Maybe a tilde could be used rather than a dash?  That's sort of a defacto-ish
>"standard" (not really, but it's used more than any other character).

I am using -- but what I really wanted to point out is that the 2008MD
leaves files lying around that:
 
a) Might break things because of the leading - 
and 
b) Leaves *readable* files behind when you thought you had encrypted
and wiped the readable ones.


-- 
Regards

Dave Saville