Re: clean up download directory?

2005-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher

Steve Kelem wrote:

After having used the Cygwin download program (which is FANTASTIC!),
I've noticed that I end up with redundant copies of the software.  There
are multiple versions of a piece of software in a directory, e.g.,

/release/binutils/binutils-20050520-1.tar.bz2
/release/binutils/binutils-20050608-2.tar.bz2

as well as copies from other download sites:

/release/binutils/binutils-20050608-2.tar.bz2

Is there a (semi-)automatic way to get rid of the older versions and
keep just the latest one?


There's a wonderfully flexible perl script at:
http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/clean_setup.zip

Max.


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clean up download directory?

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Kelem
After having used the Cygwin download program (which is FANTASTIC!), 
I've noticed that I end up with redundant copies of the software.  There 
are multiple versions of a piece of software in a directory, e.g.,


/release/binutils/binutils-20050520-1.tar.bz2
/release/binutils/binutils-20050608-2.tar.bz2

as well as copies from other download sites:

/release/binutils/binutils-20050608-2.tar.bz2

Is there a (semi-)automatic way to get rid of the older versions and 
keep just the latest one?


Thanks,
Steve

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