On 29 Mar 2010, at 00:28, hiro wrote:
Following your logic we must be one of the luckiest mailing list
around
I was speaking of lunix & co, on the basis that given enough
additional apps & things the same problems will arise.
We use ls -t. It's better than git for your task.
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Surely not.
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Why didn't I think of that?
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Oh so if ls -lt in bin you see things grouped... the -l is important..
yes... Oh when stuff is scattered through bin lib and other dirs you
need ls -lt `{ find * } . Agh! Horrendous way-too-long-to-read
output... I can pipe it into less -S and search. Wait, no less. That's
fair enough, I can search in terminal... no search in terminal.
Do not want to post "fail, feature needed." No contextual output from
diff, and it would be a weak solution anyway. Perhaps some script to
take the output from ls, pick the timestamp of a specified filename,
and output only lines matching that timestamp. I could write that with
only a little pain. :s Huh, I think we have a solution, but it's not
just ls -t. ... And to simplify: rather than write a script I could ls
-l a known file, snarf the timestamp, and ls -lt `{ find * } | grep
<timestamp>. Well, that's bearable.
I hope my stream of consciousness is readable, it's rather late here.
Speaking of late, remember you should never let make install run at
midnight (or it breaks the above solution).
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
