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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 14:13, you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 12:25, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> > > Do any of the sorcery branches make any use of UPDATED anymore? If not,
> > > maybe it could be reused. If UPDATED would be what its name implies, a
> > > date when the spell was last version updated, it would be easy to make an
> > > index of a grimoire to see which spells have been neglected. (Or is there
> > > already an easy way to do this?)
> > >
> > > Juuso
> >
> > How would you see which are version-neglected? As I see it, you'd have to
> > have an up to date list to compare to anyway, so plain spell versions could
> > be used.
>
> That's true. But I wasn't thinking of a definite know-it-all version sniffer.
> A simple list of chronologically arranged UPDATED entries would help to
> pinpoint _possible_ targets of attention:
>
> 17760704 spell1
> 20000101 spell2
> 20040506 spell3
>
> "Hmm, maybe I should check out if there's a newer version of spell1 out."
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Are you thinking of `gaze newer last_sorcery_update` or `gaze newer
<date>`? As I mention in my reply to the parent you can use `find .
- -mtime 40` to find what was not changed in the last 40 days.

- -sandalle

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