[Techtalk] querying RPM for recently installed packages

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:27:15PM +1000 or thereabouts, John Clarke wrote:
> 
> This script prints all packages installed withing the last n days:
> 
>     # set IFS to newline so that the loop variable contains the
>     # package name and date
>     IFS='
>     '

This wouldn't work when I pasted from mutt.  I had to manually insert the
newline in vi after.  This is an artifact of copy/paste rather than the
program.

>         if [ $time -lt $limit ]
                     ^^^

It works for me only if this is '-ge' (we want 'younger than $limit')

Conor
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