>Wow, that's just sad. How can you say that in reply to me saying I >don't need to? I guess I could spin my processor needlessly every >night just for kicks and then wade through all the data to find out >what's different. I don't need to, I just don't.
i'm not sure why you think it's "sad". you think my opinion is "sad"? processor are supposed to be "spun" - they are idle most of the time. "wading" through data? you mean piping it through sort and uniq ? >I just want to know if someone installs some new stuff in /usr/local that's all. i must not understand what you are trying to do. if that's all you need to know then why wouldn't you just use "find . -ctime 0" which would tell you which files in a tree have been changed in the last 24 hours? geesh, you post on a mailing list asking for help, and then get all touchy about a response. "Wow, that's just sad." ;-) just kidding. knock yourself out, do whatever you think is best. Josh Coates http://www.jcoates.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Jorgensen Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:47 PM To: Josh Coates Cc: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] Total size of a directory On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:37:30 -0600, Josh Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >In my case it's because I'm comparing two machines. > >... > >Before someone suggests MD5 let me say that it's not that important, > >but it is important enough to check sizes. > > imho, you are doing this the wrong way. comparing sizes of binaries is a > poor method of comparison. > > use md5sum. it's easy and the "right way" to do this. Wow, that's just sad. How can you say that in reply to me saying I don't need to? I guess I could spin my processor needlessly every night just for kicks and then wade through all the data to find out what's different. I don't need to, I just don't. I don't care how they are different if they are and I'm not trying to catch a hacker. I just want to know if someone installs some new stuff in /usr/local that's all. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
