This is nice. One reason I like it, which I think hasn't been
mentioned yet, is that it gives a standard interface to a piece of
information that might be used by make systems and other programs
which need to find out when directory trees have been modified.
Working through a standard interface
William Brendling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The second iteration of my patch to du to show last modified date follows.
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Thank you for the patch.
I've applied it, albeit with some difficulty due to changes
in leading white space and split lines caused no doubt by your
mail client.
I've made
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you for the patch.
I've applied it
Yes, it's a nice thing to add. Thanks too.
I reviewed the patch and have some more ideas, which I installed as
follows. One more thing (which I didn't do yet) is that there's a
reasonable amount of code
The following patch is my fist iteration at implementing my suggested
--last-modified option for du. It is a simple port of my original
draft code to the latest CVS source for du.
Doesn't the standard ISO-8601 date format accomplish that, too?
I have changed the default date format to be
Thanks for contributing! Some comments:
Internally, file time stamps should be maintained to nanosecond
resolution, not just 1-second resolution.
As far as the --last-modified option syntax goes, I suggest that
we use a syntax that is more like that of touch --time. E.g.,
du
William Brendling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Doesn't the standard ISO-8601 date format accomplish that, too?
Quite likely. I will have to find out what the ISO-8601 format is.
date already supports it:
$ date --iso=s
2005-06-07T08:14:28+0200
ls does, too, via --time-style=STYLE.
du's
First, get a copy of the latest sources from CVS by following
the instructions here:
Apply your changes there, then run e.g.,
and mail the contents of DIFF to the mailing list.
OK. My current version is based upon the 5.2.1 release code. I will
try and port it over to the CVS code.
Doesn't
I use the du command to identify directories for potential
archiving. Candidate directories are those that are taking a lot of
space, and which are not currently being worked on. The du command
conveniently identified the first. To find out the latter requires
walking the directory tree, and
