Re: "Recent Documents" a la Win32 for the shell?

From: William Park (opengeometry_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: 21 Jul 2004 09:00:56 GMT

Gerald Jones <gj@freeshell.org> wrote:
>
> One thing I think is really nifty about MS Windows is the "Recent
> Documents" menu you can access from the "Start Bar". Does anyone know
> of a command-line based tool or shell script approximating this
> utility, but for the unix shell?

Very difficult to do, because shell is not the only program accessing
files, and there are child processes, cron, etc.

If it's only for shell, then command history may be an option. 

-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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