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This seems like a bit of a scam:
On your external drives you can prevent the creation of .DS_Store
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true
If you really want to continuously delete DS_Store from both your internal and external hard drives you can set up a cronjob:
15 1 * * * root find / -name '.DS_Store' -type f -delete
Honestly this sounds like they edited the prompt (see Ollama documentation), especially with the waffling about.
You can add .DS Store in your global gitignore at ~/config/git/ignore
Why is there a * in front of DS_Store?
Seems like fastly made a small mistake find . -name '.DS_Store' -type f -print -delete would just match the exact file and is faster.
That doesn’t work, DS_Store are files not directories ( you need to use -type f).
An equivalent find command would be:
find "$HOME" -type f -name '.DS_Store' -delete -print
find takes a while; fd is way, way faster, but find is preinstalled, so there is that.
fd -HI '^\.DS_Store$' $HOME -tf -X rm -v
Don’t forget:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true