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cat .nls ?

• jacknagel 15y ago
  Just for kicks, here's a (terribly ugly) pipeline that will display the contents of .nls and `ls`, with duplicates removed: ls | cat .nls - | column -t -s: | sort -r | perl -ane 'print unless $x{$F[0]}++' and then obviously just echo "dirname: description" >> .nls to append to the file. I would be interested in seeing a better pipeline, one that doesn't need perl/awk/ruby/what have you to remove the duplicates correctly.
  • newhouseb 15y ago
    Oh hey, this is awesome! I thought about doing something like this but then opted for the (ultimately more flexible) python script.
  • colanderman 15y ago
    The join(1) command is designed to do exactly this: join -a2 -t: <(sort .nls) <(ls | sort) (I think this is different from your pipeline, in that your pipeline will print files in .nls that aren't actually in the directory.)
    • jacknagel 15y ago
      Awesome.
• newhouseb 15y ago
  Is fine too, but you wont get non-annotated files. nls was designed to work within your normal workflow, i.e. doesn't require you to think about getting file notes in order to get them.