On 2/12/06 6:10 PM, "Iain Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:47 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>> On 2/13/06, Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Under linux that's not nessecary
>>> as you can just use long filenames including spaces..
>>>
>>
>> I do that, of course. It solves 95% of my issues. Somehow, I still
>> miss that feature. Additional comments would help me, for example,
>> when I have a series of source code files with similar file names, and
>> need to make comments to distinguish them. Especially when other
>> programs are looking for the file names in a series.
>
> The simplest way I can see to do it, would be to:
> - make a bash script called "ls"
> - put it in your ~/bin directory (not in /bin)
> - make an alias to _your_ ls, which first checks for a descript.ion file
> or maybe even .comments file in the current directory, and then passes
> the rest to ls.
You know...now that you put it that way, I seem to recall seeing a project
in freshmeat that did something like that....
>
> A bit of fiddling, but that's what linux is about - if it doesn't work
> the way you want it: make it work the way you want it!!
>
> Let me know if you want to know more about this method.
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