[Info-vax] Still no DIR/SORT_BY_TIME

[George Cornelius]

In article <mqfrbo$6oh$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2015-08-12 14:42:05 +0000, David Froble said:
> 
>> alanfeldman48 at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Just checked 
>>> http://h30266.www3.hp.com/odl/axpos/opsys/vmsos84/9996/9996pro_63.html#blue_73 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Still can't sort directory listings by time.
>> 
>> It's called "programming".  Sometimes you have to do it yourself ..
>> 
>> :-)
> 
> $ product install gnv
> $ ls :== $gnv$gnu:[bin]ls
> $ ls -t

I have avoided gnv over the years.

Seems a dba who had full privileges - someone who eventually became
a member of the system administrators' team I am on - ran a script
against files in SYS$SYSROOT, and, due to dollar signs in filenames/
filespecs (I forget where now), wound up deleting a lot of files out
of SYS$SYSTEM.

Bash and VMS style filenames would seem to be an invitation to
disaster if you were to transfer certain *nix scripting practices
over to gnv bash.

I remember ages ago not thinking twice about doing things like

  for i in `ls -d /tmp/*.exe` ; do echo "mv $i ${i}_sv" ; done >script1.sh
  chmod +x script1.sh
  ./script1.sh

before I learned that this is dangerous because $i might contain shell
characters, including dollar signs - and that's just in *nix where
dollar signs in filenames is hopefully a rare situation.
 
George

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