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[opensuse] Project management software question for project managers
by Ted Byers 29 May '24

29 May '24

I am looking for project management software I can install on my Suse box. Alas, there are quite a number of prducts that claim to be suitable project management products, but I am hoping to obtain a little help separating the wheat from the chaffe. Basically, when I open the project management software, I want to be able to choose from among a number of projects that are under way, and then see the relation between a client's wish list and the functional requirements specs, and then how these specs relate to the UML diagrams that have been created, and from there, what tasks have been defined for each requirement and the identity of all persons involved, the developers and their managers, and the person who designed the code that supports the requirement. And with that, I want to be able to see the project's timeline, the related bugs, &c. I would even want to be able to open the source code files and examine the code that was actually written. Here is my wish list: 1) a web application that stores data in either PostgreSQL or MySQL. 2) easy integration with UML tool (or has it's own UML tool that supports round trip engineering) 3) resource management (e.g. computers, and development tools, that can be used, personelle assigned to each task) 4) documentation of relation between functional requirements specs to specific tasks and specific unit and integration tests. 5) time/effort tracking 6) bug tracking, including data relating the existance of the bug, and effort required to fix it, to the person who wrote the original code, the person who supervised him or her, and the person who designed the 'feature' in question, the time taken to complete the original task, and the technologies used (to imprrove accountability as well as to determine retraining and continuing education needs (people aren't disposable, so instead of taking a harsh aproach to problems identified, I prefer to use education as a corrective, but I can't design corrective instruction without knowing precisely what the need is). I also need to know if a developer has a higher than normal bug rate simply because he doesn't take enough time to ensure the job is done right, or because I haven't adequately trained him, or because of a poor choice of tools, or somethng else that may be my fault. 7) use of task effort tracking history to generate provisional effort/cost estimates from new project's functional requirements 8) easy integration with open source ERP products like OFBiz (which may make trakcing resources and manpower easier, as well as connect real production data to the enterprise's accounting systems) 9) easy integration with CMS products, like Wordpress (especally for production documentation, includng degin documentation and user guides and reference manuals) 10) easy integration with verion control systems such as subversion. If there is a decent product that supports all of this, great (and language used to implement it doesn't matter), but if I have to write code to add missing requirements, then I am limited to those implemented using Perl or Java (and running on Tomcat). I don't know PHP well enough, and I don't know Ruby at all; and I really don't want to think about implementing this sort of thing in C++ (though I could if absolutely necessary). If you have project management experience, and use tools that are available for Suse Linux, what software product(s) did you use, and with what result? While I await relies, I will continue to review web documentation for those products I have found so far, to see if any of them are a) suitable for use in production and b) to see to what extent they support the features I am after. I have seen a number of products so far in my search, that deserve to be nameless, because they provide no way to relate cost estimates to one's team's track record, or to the details of the design, and seem satisfied with production of a pretty gantt chart (which is why I have formed the view that there is a whole lots of chaffe in the set of applications that call themselves project menement software - I have yet to find anything that really has the potential of being labelled wheat). Thanks Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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No Login, no Graphics after update to Tumbleweed 20230211-0
by Peter Maffter 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

Hello, after the update the screen only shows a '-'. All the usual other tty screens that you get with e.g. STRG-ALT-F1 are also gone. I can connect to the PC via ssh from my Ubuntu Laptop and check what is going on. I am using an old GTX 570 on that PC. Previously when the G06 stuff was installed instead of updating the needed G04 stuff, I was able to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.157.run manually and the login and XFCE worked. But now even that fails. :-( Any pointers? Is that the beginning of the things that are named in Subject "Nvidia 390x driver users - glibc 2.37 will bring bad news" ? I do have strange output about signature and verification: 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628957+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.411047][ T527] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628957+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.411690][ T527] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628958+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.412304][ T527] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628958+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.418769][ T527] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628963+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.426827][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM57781) rev 57785100] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:25:22:e6:5d:d3 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628964+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.427483][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: attached PHY is 57765 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[1]) 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628964+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.428122][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1] 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628965+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.428740][ T538] tg3 0000:0d:00.0 eth0: dma_rwctrl[00000001] dma_mask[64-bit] 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628965+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.482616][ T527] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 241 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628966+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.488784][ T527] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628971+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.489637][ T527] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 390.157 Wed Oct 12 09:19:07 UTC 2022 (using threaded interrupts) 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628972+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.499362][ T527] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 390.157 Wed Oct 12 09:15:25 UTC 2022 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628972+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.505733][ T527] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver 2023-02-13T00:08:13.628973+01:00 machine4 kernel: [ 3.506428][ T527] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1 Update openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230211-0 -> 20230212-0 did not help either. Boot to the recover modes of 6.1.10-1 or 6.1.8-1 does not help . 6.1.8-1 recovery at least says that "Failed to start X Display Manager" and gives the F1,F2,...ttys. but when I install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.157.run the F1,F2, ttys are also gone. Please help. Thanks in advance BR Pete

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[oS-en] iotop complains of missing feature in kernel
by Carlos E. R. 18 Feb '24

18 Feb '24

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 cer@Telcontar:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iotop -o -d 3.3333 Total DISK READ : 1169.77 K/s | Total DISK WRITE : 12.79 K/s Actual DISK READ: 1168.61 K/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 48.84 K/s TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 2041 be/4 news 490.70 K/s 0.00 B/s ?unavailable? texpire 9622 be/4 cer 0.00 B/s 6.98 K/s ?unavailable? firefox --sm-client-id 27~-9abbeba61260 [LS Thread] 8039 idle cer 679.07 K/s 0.00 B/s ?unavailable? tracker-miner-fs-3 12912 be/4 cer 0.00 B/s 5.81 K/s ?unavailable? firefox --sm-client-id 27~beba61260 [IndexedDB #45] * * ... CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel, cannot determine SWAPIN and IO % cer@Telcontar:~> uname -a Linux Telcontar 5.14.21-150400.24.33-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 4 13:55:06 UTC 2022 (76cfe60) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux cer@Telcontar:~> - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY850Sxwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVjxsAnREQY/RUTyYZuN8ZczMy KHE36e4GAJ9E6Pia/flb5Of5gQuYU1S9i0oirA== =W0vq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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[oS-en] Suddenly, mouse wheel doesn't work.
by Carlos E. R. 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Suddenly, mouse wheel doesn't work. It was working, and suddenly it stopped working. I was seeing strange messages in log related to usb, so I unplugged/replugged the mouse, no effect. I downgraded the kernel several versions, no effect. Middle button, which shares the wheel, works. Leap 15.4. XFCE. What can I do to diagnose? This one is a trackball. I connected at the same time a second mouse, cheapo, and it works fine. Telcontar:~ # hwinfo --mouse 59: USB 00.1: 10503 USB Mouse [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: PsRb.FBtr+tYVKV1 Parent ID: k4bc.029GFTetOb3 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:03:00.0/usb1/1-13/1-13:1.1 SysFS BusID: 1-13:1.1 Hardware Class: mouse Model: "Holtek USB Keyboard" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x04d9 "Holtek Semiconductor, Inc." Device: usb 0x2020 "USB Keyboard" Revision: "1.01" Compatible to: int 0x0200 0x0001 "Generic USB Mouse" <=== WTF? No such thing. Driver: "usbhid" Driver Modules: "usbhid" Device File: /dev/input/event3 Device Files: /dev/input/event3, /dev/input/by-id/usb-CYKB13_USB_Keyboard-event-if01, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:03:00.0-usb-0:13:1.1-event Device Number: char 13:67 Speed: 1.5 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v04D9p2020d0101dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip02in01" Driver Info #0: XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #62 (Hub) 61: USB 00.0: 10503 USB Mouse [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: Mwf_.z_8Swe_nwg5 Parent ID: 2XnU.BpLUUanApo2 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:29:00.3/usb5/5-3/5-3:1.0 SysFS BusID: 5-3:1.0 Hardware Class: mouse Model: "Logitech TrackMan Wheel" <========= Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x046d "Logitech, Inc." Device: usb 0xc404 "TrackMan Wheel" Revision: "2.20" Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0023 Driver: "usbhid" Driver Modules: "usbhid" Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0) Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event0, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:29:00.3-usb-0:3:1.0-event-mouse, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_Trackball-event-mouse, /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_Trackball-mouse, /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:29:00.3-usb-0:3:1.0-mouse Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32) Speed: 1.5 Mbps Module Alias: "usb:v046DpC404d0220dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip02in00" Driver Info #0: Buttons: 3 Wheels: 1 XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #64 (Hub) Telcontar:~ # - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY9gjZRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfV/vAAmwYh1wv5utPK0ta/zdr5 cu6bp5ThAJ9nYxhbeAvQzSu6GWB0joUYDysLsg== =TWyg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Leap 15.4 mailx quite dated
by David C. Rankin 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

Devs, mailx is a fantastic command line mailer, but the version for 15.4 is more than a DECADE out of date, e.g. $ mailx -V 12.5 7/5/10 Uhhh, that's July 2010 folks? Why are we not using the s-nail package which still enjoys active development? E.g. $ mailx -V mail v14.9.24, 2022-03-26 (built for Linux) At least that's only 11 months old, not 13 years... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[oS-en] find problem
by Carlos E. R. 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I trying to find png files created recently in my home. So I do: cer@Telcontar:~> find * -name "*.png" -newermt 2023-01-01 find: ‘Backups Discos/Disco Seagate Basic 2TB para backup de Legolas/Seagate Basic/Seagate’: Permission denied p.png cer@Telcontar:~> Can I make it not print the error? If I try: find -L . -name "*.png" -newermt 2023-01-01 there are so many errors that I can not read the results. - -ignore_readdir_race doesn't do it. cer@Telcontar:~> find -L . -name "*.png" -path ./.dosemu/ -prune -ignore_readdir_race -newermt 2023-01-01 ind: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-upower.service-y7EoBi’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-rtkit-daemon.service-2odVpf’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/BootInfo-JQ12X6Q3’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/BootInfo-bzvrn7Gi’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-power-profiles-daemon.service-UnAvYi’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-geoclue.service-aQ0lfj’: Permission denied find: ‘./.dosemu/drives/d/tmp/systemd-private-2d6e8e36b0594f8bbdd30cba975d2743-ntpd.service-Mr8llh’: Permission denied ^C Prune is not working. Of course I know I'm doing it wrong, but man doesn't say how to do it: -prune True; if the file is a directory, do not descend into it. If -depth is given, then -prune has no effect. Be- cause -delete implies -depth, you can- not usefully use -prune and -delete together. For example, to skip the directory src/emacs and all files and directories under it, and print the names of the other files found, do something like this: find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print That's all it says, and no more examples. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCY/5KoBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVPGUAn1vQdZOD+mlK4YrHtFLp pJyObyQUAJ94m76QZiFjZhQ9y52HGMhB1Odcsg== =s+fF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Finding recent work directories
by Robert Webb 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

Since I often get side-tracked and forget what I was doing, I wrote a script to find directories with recent (or otherwise selected) files in them. That makes a better list than sorting directories by their own modification times. This script, 'finddirs_by_latest_file', allows to restrict the search with extra find expression terms, but I usually just run the second script below, 'fblf100', which invokes finddirs_by_latest_file to make two lists; for the latest 5 and 100 days (or whatever time periods given). Excuse all the script boilerplate. Carlos, this may help you find your router config info. --<cut>------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # finddirs_by_latest_file.sh 2022-06-30 rw # # Outputs a list of directories of found files, sorted by the time of # their most recently modified file, and prefixed by a file count. #-----<lib/s/template-errx-getopts.sh>----------------------------------- CMD=finddirs_by_latest_file VERSION=0.1 export LC_COLLATE='C' Cmd=`basename "$0"` umsg() { #------<USAGE>--------------------------------------------------------- printf 'usage: %s %s\n' \ "$Cmd" '[--sdir] [find_options] <find_starting_point>... [find_expression]' \ '' '' \ 'The' 'find_expression, if any, is prepended to an implied:' \ ' -type f' '-exec...' } errmsg() { # usage: errmsg [msg_line ...] test 1 -le "$#" || return 0 printf "${Cmd}: %s\\n" "$@" >&2 } usage() { # for output to stderr, and error exit: usage [msg_line ...] # for normal exit: usage help if [ x"$*" = x'help' ] ;then umsg ;exit else errmsg "$@" ;umsg >&2 ;exit 2 fi } errx() { # usage: errx <exitcode> [msg_line ...] if expr x"${1-}" : x'[1-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null ;then ExCode="$1" ;shift else ExCode=3 ;set -- "$@" "$BUG: errx(): missing exit code" fi errmsg "$@" ;exit "$ExCode" } BUG="error: software bug" errxbug() { errx 3 "$BUG: $@" } exists() { # usage: exists <path> test -e "${1:?'exists(): null or missing arg'}" || test -h "$1" # test -f "${1:?'exists(): null or missing arg'}" || test -d "$1" \ # || test -h "$1" || test -b "$1" || test -c "$1" || test -p "$1" } #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Option defaults SORT_BY_DIR_f=false #XXX HACK: '--sdir' option is only recognized when it is first if [ x"${1-}" = x'--sdir' ] ;then SORT_BY_DIR_f=true shift fi GOPTSTRING='hV' while getopts ":$GOPTSTRING" OPT ;do case "$OPT" in #----- h) usage help ;; V) printf 'RW %s %s\n' "$CMD" "$VERSION" ;exit ;; :) usage "missing argument for option: ${OPTARG}" ;; \?) usage "invalid option: ${OPTARG}" ;; *) errxbug "getopts optstring: option: ${OPT}" ;; esac done shift `expr $OPTIND - 1` if [ x"$SORT_BY_DIR_f" = x'true' ] ;then sort_by() { sort -k 3 -k 2,2n ;} else # sort by time, then by dir (default) sort_by() { sort -k 2,2n -k 3 ;} fi #------------------------------------------------------------------------ W=' *[^ ][^ ]* ' # find files: stat <seconds_since_Epoch> <path> # sed: truncate last path component (to parent dir), use '.' if empty, # or '/' if at root # sort by dir, then by recent to old # uniq: most recent of each dir. prefix with file count # sort by time, then by dir (unless '--sdir' option: sort by dir) # sed: remove seconds field export TMPDIR=~/tmp TEMPF=`mktemp --tmpdir "$CMD.XXXXXXXXXX.temp"` \ && trap 'rm -f -- "$TEMPF"' EXIT \ || exit find -H "$@" -type f -exec stat -c '%Y %n' {} + > "$TEMPF" || exit sed -e ' s+^$'"$W"'$[^/]*$+\1.+ t s+^$'"$W"'/$[^/]*$+\1+ t s+^$'"$W"'.*$/[^/]*$+\1+ ' "$TEMPF" \ |sort -k 2 -k 1,1nr \ |uniq -c -f 1 \ |sort_by \ |sed -e 's+'"$W"'+ +2' --<cut>------------------------------------------------------------------ --<cut>------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # fblf100 2021-12-07 rw TOP=~ usage() { printf 'usage: fblf100 [#_by_time_days [#_by_path_days]]' >&2 exit 2 } { printf '=== %s days, in order\n' "${1:-5}" finddirs_by_latest_file "$TOP" -mtime -"${1:-5}" \ || usage printf '\n=== %s days, sorted\n' "${2:-100}" finddirs_by_latest_file --sdir "$TOP" -mtime -"${2:-100}" \ || usage } \ |less --<cut>------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Robert Webb

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