On Monday 02 June 2008 22:57, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > [...] > > Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that would > > put up an xmessage saying when the system was last updated, when I boot > > up Lenny? > > > > Much appreciation to all you scripting gurus out there. > > > > Nigel. > > I'm hardly a scripting guru, but this may help you a bit: > > #!/bin/bash > hist_files="$HOME/tmp/tmp/history-files" > lastupd=`ls $hist_files | sort -n | tail -1` > xmessage "The system was last updated on $lastupd"
Hi. Thanks for the little script. I have a problem understanding the hist_files= line. The xmessage just says "The system was last updated on", and no date of the lastupdate is mentioned. I ran ls /home/djmons/History-files | sort -n | tail -1, and the date of the latest file is printed out in the shell, so that bit is working ok. I did change history-files to History-files on the hist_files= line, to reflect the correct name for the directory where the history files are kept, but no change. What does the /tmp/tmp signify on that line. It seems as if the path to where the history files are is not correct. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
