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From: Christopher Cobb <ccobb AT email DOT com>
Subject: Re: installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:59:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> 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
> 

I didn't know about /etc/setup/last-mirror.  :)

If we use that, do we still need the ls ... | head -1?  Isn't that enough to
unambiguaously identify the latest site dir, or is their more going on here?

cc





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