Re: src snapshot archives?

On Thu 17 Sep 2009 at 11:13:51 AM +0200, Dalibor Gudzic wrote:
>
>@George
>
>This works for me:
>
>$ ftp -o - http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5/ | sed
>-Ene 's|.*href="([0-9]+[^/]*).*|\1|p' | sort -r | head -1
>

Thanks, I had worked something out but seem to lost it in my
command line history...  I'll take yours instead, but no sort and
tail -1

maybe that's dangerous with servers and protocols changing (!)
I'm curious, I never saw any discussion on the topic...

A key reason I began using netbsd was the stability and consistancy.
It's never good when validated disaster recovery QA scripts fail.

-g