From e87d1ce95fb446c4ff733260d186ced5ce0e4964 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:31:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixed complaint during recustomize when nothing exists in
 custom yet.

---
 scripts/core/functions.sh | 5 ++++-
 scripts/files/safedel.pl  | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/core/functions.sh b/scripts/core/functions.sh
index 724dacb3..3a6f9ead 100644
--- a/scripts/core/functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/functions.sh
@@ -424,7 +424,10 @@ if [ -z "$skip_all" ]; then
     regenerate >/dev/null
     pushd "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK/custom" &>/dev/null
     local incongruous_files="$(bash "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/list_non_dupes.sh" "$FEISTY_MEOW_DIR/customizing/$user" "$FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK/custom")"
-    if [ ${#incongruous_files} -ge 1 ]; then
+
+#echo "the incongruous files list is: $incongruous_files"
+    # disallow a single character result, since we get "*" as result when nothing exists yet.
+    if [ ${#incongruous_files} -ge 2 ]; then
       echo "cleaning unknown older overrides..."
       perl "$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/safedel.pl" $incongruous_files
       echo
diff --git a/scripts/files/safedel.pl b/scripts/files/safedel.pl
index 2315464e..0fd25678 100644
--- a/scripts/files/safedel.pl
+++ b/scripts/files/safedel.pl
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ sub safedel {
     if (substr($file, length($file) - 1, 1) eq ":") {
       die "removing the root directory of a drive is not permitted!";
     }
+
+#print "file to whack: '$file'\n";
+
     if ( ($file =~ /^.*\/\.$/) || ($file =~ /^.*\/\.\.$/) ) {
       print "ignoring attempt to remove current or parent directory.\n";
       next;
-- 
2.34.1