ezyang’s blog

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Spring 2010: A Random Walk

Here at the eve of Spring 2010 term, I decided to run this little experiment on my laptop: what files had I modified within the last six months? find . \( -path '*/.*' \) -prune -o -mtime -180 -print The result was north of one-hundred-fifty thousand modified files. Here's the (slightly) abridged version: LaTeX files […]

  • May 14, 2010