On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:48:11AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Alex wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>>I have a habit of keeping cygwin packages on my computer and updating >>>them from time to time using setup.exe. This saves me time when I need >>>to install on another computer. >>>This creates a problem of old versions of packages accumulating in my >>>download directory. I used to remove them by hand but that is a time >>>consuming process. Finally I wrote an awk script to help me deal with >>>the problem. And just for kicks I added a shell wrapper :). >>> >>>Attached are the scripts. I hope they could be useful to someone else. >>>I am sure they can be improved but they have been useful to me as is. >> >>That's a nice attempt. However, I can see that you're not aware of >>Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl (which does that and much, much more). >>Google for it. > >It is here if you are interested: > >http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/
Should this be a cygwin (or maybe a cygutuils) package? cgf -- 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/
