[Monotone-devel] finding the monotone root directory

[Hugo Cornelis]

I fairly regularly go crazy finding the monotone root directory in a
workspace with many nested directories.

Here is a perl one liner that solves my problems:

perl -e 'print map { "$_\n" } map { glob "../" x $_ . "_MT[N]" } 0..15'

The last 15 is the maximal nesting depth.

As an example, to go to the monotone inventory directory _MTN:

cd `perl -e 'print map { "$_\n" } map { glob "../" x $_ . "_MT[N]" } 0..15'`

and to go to the root directory of the monotone workspace:

cd `perl -e 'print map { "$_\n" } map { glob "../" x $_ . "_MT[N]" } 0..15'`/..

The perl statement also takes nested workspaces into account, printing
the _MTN directory for each one found.

Obviously you can install this as a shell alias.


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Hugo


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