From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Mar 14 09:54:29 2003 Subject: sorting "who" output by modification time From: "E. Joshua Rigler" To: Help-Octave Date: 14 Mar 2003 08:53:20 -0700 Has the idea of time-stamping variables, and giving the "who" command the ability to sort them by creation/modification time ever been suggested? I can't count the number of times I've tried to type something like "whos -lt" thinking I'll get something similar to a UNIX "ls" command. This would probably be more useful for those of us who spend too much time working at the prompt, and endlessly tweaking parameters by hand, than it would to those who are organized enough to write the appropriate scripts and functions, but I imagine that includes more of us than we'd like to admit ;^). I'm probably being naive, but this seems like it would be a relatively transparent change (with regards to M*tlab compatibility, anyway), and there must be something along these lines already implemented for functions, since Octave checks time-stamps on *.m files to see if they need to be recompiled each time they are called. Sorry if this has been talked about before. I did both a google and octave archive search on the keywords "who[s]", "sort", and "time", but to no avail. ...just a thought. -EJR ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------