Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes: > FWIW, why not > > INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/$(cd $PACKAGES_DIR && \ > ls -1td $(cat /etc/setup/last-mirror | \ > perl -pe 's/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_.!~*()\n])/"%".unpack("H2",$1)/eg') | \ > head -1) # most recently modified install dir >
I didn't know about /etc/setup/last-mirror. :) If we use that, do we still need the ls ... | head -1? Isn't that enough to unambiguaously identify the latest site dir, or is their more going on here? cc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/