On 1/5/13 4:06 AM, yati sagade wrote:
> Hi
> I have found many a time that in my huge home directory tree, I forget what
> directory contains exactly what. e.g., in ~/Projects/ml/py I might keep the
> solutions to my machine learning course I wrote in Python, but sometimes,
> we all can be bit shaky with naming directories and later have to hunt for
> something when we need it.
>
> What if a directory could optionally contain a special file, say,
> ".__about__ ", which contains a brief summary of what this directory
> contains. Then, the flow could be
>
>
> - Create a directory optionally with a message
>
> $ mkdir -p foo/bar --about "Example directory".
>
> - The cd builtin, depending upon an environment variable or an option,
> also cats the .__about__ file after performing the chdir.
>
> $ cd --about foo/bar
>
> foo/bar: Example directory
This is off-the-cup and incomplete, but you get the idea.
cd()
{
about=false
case "$1" in
--about) about=true ; shift ;;
esac
builtin cd "$@"
rv=$?
(( $rv == 0 )) && $about && [ -f .__about__ ] && cat .__about__
return $rv
}
We don't need to be so eager to embed this kind of stuff in C code.
Chet
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