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Re: installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely)
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?
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