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Use a unix-style syntax for copies names in Finder
Authored by: TrumpetPower! on Dec 07, '05 10:09:07AM

I should expand upon that reply just a bit more. The hint will only work with static text, best I know. To get the current date into the filename, you'd need some code to figure out what the current date is and how you'd like to format it. The hint will also apply to /every/ file you copy in the Finder.

If you do a lot of this sort of versioning thing, you're really better off with some sort of revision control system. And, OS X being Unix, it just happens that it ships with exactly that--good ol' RCS. Read the man page ``rcsintro'' to learn everything you need to know. But, in day-to-day use, it's no harder than ``ci -l filename'' when you want to check in a file with changes worth saving. You can then later check out any previous version, see comments for the various versions, compare differences between any two versions--all that good stuff.

Cheers,

b&



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