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Re: installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely)
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> Christopher Cobb schrieb:
> ...
> > --- begin installCygwinPackage.sh ---
> ...
> > PACKAGES_DIR=/packages # adjust this for your installation
> >
> > INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/`(cd $PACKAGES_DIR && ls -1t | head -1)` #
> > most
>
> and I prefer this line:
>
> INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/`(cd $PACKAGES_DIR && ls -1t | egrep \
> "^(http|ftp|rsync)*" | head -1)` # most recently modified install dir
>
> I have several other subdirs there also.
FWIW, why not
INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$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
?
HTH,
Igor
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