From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <2653D5E1-ADDE-4351-8DE1-896D490DED68@fastmail.fm> From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:59:10 +0100 References: <20100325114948.GA7249@polynum.com> <31C84C15-2EE3-46CA-BE9F-48F20886ADF7@fastmail.fm> <202b36ec0f14adf4b09e53052147ccc8@brasstown.quanstro.net> <11721B64-8041-4D96-94E3-49472F941C38@fastmail.fm> <32d987d51003281236m7a890b0dkaf4de23191fa3d47@mail.gmail.com> <8AB033EC-13D4-4BD3-A70F-B9CE7D724238@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Topicbox-Message-UUID: f763231c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. ... Surely not. ... Why didn't I think of that? ... 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 . 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). -- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis