X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Cygwin is saving my ass Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:11:42 -0700 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <47ED2527.40100@gmail.com> References: <47ED2527.40100@gmail.com> From: "Stepp, Charles" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m2VFCMTd023349 Yeah...I use shell scripts to rename and rearrange music and podcasts on my MP3 Players. I just don't understand why the original namers can't get the Year before Month before Day concept. Charles Stepp Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. -----Original Message----- From: Morgan gangwere [mailto:0.fractalus@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:05 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin is saving my ass Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\ (where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the file in a list of oh say 30000 files.) i _could_ impliment this in vb, but bash is faster. -- Morgan Gangwere Unknown Software -- 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/