On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:28:03 +
Colin Watson wrote:
> This version is much shorter and easier to understand than the
> shell/awk version: we don't have to worry about convincing ls to
> produce output that we can parse, and we don't have to play games
> with the way that the same field may con
Am 18.02.2017 19:07, schrieb James K. Lowden:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:28:03 +
> Colin Watson wrote:
>
>> This version is much shorter and easier to understand than the
>> shell/awk version: we don't have to worry about convincing ls to
>> produce output that we can parse, and we don't have
Hi wh,
> I dont know why this is needed in the first place, but maybe stat(1)
> can help here ?
I'm guessing stat(1) isn't portable? It's not in my stat(1p) man page
section.
If the C does make it, then it would be nice if the exit status wasn't
zero when a something went wrong, e.g. file not f
On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 01:07:38PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:28:03 +
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > This version is much shorter and easier to understand than the
> > shell/awk version: we don't have to worry about convincing ls to
> > produce output that we can parse,
