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Re: Couple of scripts to remove duplicate packages
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: alex-p at hotpop dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:12:38 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Couple of scripts to remove duplicate packages
- References: <41EF54F1.7090807@hotpop.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Alex wrote:
Hi,
I have a habit of keeping cygwin packages on my computer and updating
them from time to time using setup.exe. This saves me time when I need
to install on another computer.
This creates a problem of old versions of packages accumulating in my
download directory. I used to remove them by hand but that is a time
consuming process. Finally I wrote an awk script to help me deal with
the problem. And just for kicks I added a shell wrapper :).
Attached are the scripts. I hope they could be useful to someone else.
I am sure they can be improved but they have been useful to me as is.
That's a nice attempt. However, I can see that you're not aware of
Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl (which does that and much, much more).
Google for it.
HTH,
Igor
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