Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:08:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Reini Urban cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely) In-Reply-To: <4126053B.6050205@x-ray.at> Message-ID: References: <00c801c4860a$adcd62d0$78d96f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> <4126053B.6050205@x-ray.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Reini Urban wrote: > Christopher Cobb schrieb: > ... > > --- begin installCygwinPackage.sh --- > ... > > PACKAGES_DIR=/packages # adjust this for your installation > > > > INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/`(cd $PACKAGES_DIR && ls -1t | head -1)` # > > most > > and I prefer this line: > > INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/`(cd $PACKAGES_DIR && ls -1t | egrep \ > "^(http|ftp|rsync)*" | head -1)` # most recently modified install dir > > I have several other subdirs there also. FWIW, why not INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$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 ? HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/