Re: A feature proposal

[yati sagade]

Sorry for the incomplete message!

Then , we can also have ls -a print out (parts of) these summaries whenever
available depending upon some option passed to ls. I tried to achieve this
for myself by creating a bash function, but that (naturally) goes into
infinite recursion and is not a very neat way to do it IMHO.
This is just a proposal and if many people like it, I'm ready to work on it
:)

Thanks


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM, yati sagade <yati.sagade@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I have found many a time that in my huge home directory tree, I forget
> what directory contains exactly what. e.g., in ~/Projects/ml/py I might
> keep the solutions to my machine learning course I wrote in Python, but
> sometimes, we all can be bit shaky with naming directories and later have
> to hunt for something when we need it.
>
> What if a directory could optionally contain a special file, say,
> ".__about__ ",  which contains a brief summary of what this directory
> contains. Then, the flow could be
>
>
>    - Create a directory optionally with a message
>
>              $ mkdir -p foo/bar --about "Example directory".
>
>    - The cd builtin, depending upon an environment variable or an option,
>    also cats the .__about__ file after performing the chdir.
>
> $ cd --about foo/bar
>
>               foo/bar: Example directory
>
>
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