Keeping track of config file changes

[Rick Stevens]

Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>
>>>I'm currently using CVS to keep track of code on various
> 
> microcontroller
> 
>>>projects. Should I just create a "project" for all my config files and
> 
> import them into CVS when I start modifying them? Is anyone doing
> something like this? Over the years, I end up with LOTS of modified
> configs scattered around the system. How do you keep track of them?
> 
>>We prefer bottom-posting here, Harold.
>>
>>You can create a "module" for tracking this stuff, but it can get
> 
> gronchy.  What I typically do is use version numbers as filetypes and
> use a symlink to point at the active one.  For example:
> 
>>	[root at prophead samba]# ls -l smb.conf
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 root root 793 Mar 3 10:18 smb.conf.1
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 root root 793 Mar 4 14:28 smb.conf.2
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 root root 793 Mar 10 16:42 smb.conf.3
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 root root 793 Apr 22 12:20 smb.conf.4
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 root root 793 Apr 23 13:10 smb.conf.5
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 root root 793 Apr 24 11:22 smb.conf.6
>>	lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 Apr 27 11:23 smb.conf -> smb.conf.6
>>
>>It can be ugly, but it works.  That's one thing I miss from the old
> 
> VAX/VMS filesystem...automatic versioning.  Of course, for commonly-
> modified files you eventually had to do a "purge/keep=n" to get rid of
> the old versions.
> 
> 
> Interesting idea... Maybe the current one could just be .conf and keep all
> the old ones with .n . Another thing I want to do is to quickly find ALL
> the config files I've modified. I guess I could throw something unique
> into the backup file names (ie, smb.conf.6.HH). I just tried that,
> expecting ls -R *.HH to find it, but it doesn't unless the file is in my
> current directory. What do I do to find files named *.HH anywhere on the
> system?

Try:

	find / -name "*.HH" -print
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