On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Lieven Moors <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I made a quick shell script that goes through the history file to gather > the sources used by a timeline session. Am I right to assume that the > history file would always have the complete info about a session, and > that I don't need to take the snapshot file into account? > > This might NOT be the best shell script written on the planet, but I > would be very grateful if you could give me some feedback. > I still believe that the problem would better be solved in C, but I > don't have the time to look into it right now... > One thing I think might need to be changed is that I use a slash as a > seperator (as it is an illegal character in filenames). Can or could > the source argument become a pathname, instead of a filename? >
Yes, the 'history' file is the ultimate authority on the session data. Yes, the source argument can be a full path name (more likely in the case of external sources in older sessions [now they are symlink'd in but weren't always).
