in reply to If I had a Free Two Months...

Your 'sweep' program sounds like find $dir -type d -exec ... \;!

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Re^2: If I had a Free Two Months...
by samizdat (Vicar) on Jun 23, 2005 at 17:05 UTC
    Okay, add another two-month project... make a /usr/games/fortune database called 'Did You Know You Could...' with a web-based updater for all the neat things you can do on *NIX boxen. Sort of a dynamic version of UNIX Power Tools. I have my prompt set up to display a fortune each time I log in or su, and I think this would be more useful (though less humorous) than fortune -o...