But since the lights went out I’ve never been the same

[venta]

Yesterday I had one of those moments where I realise I have a very specific opinion on something - but no real justification for it, and no clear idea where I got it from.

So, you, my dear self-selecting sample of guinea pigs, have the opportunity to prove me right. Or wrong. But I'm not going to tell you which is which. I'd hate to bias my otherwise-scientific survey.

I'm asking here about portable mp3 players (or mp3-a-likes). If you use your computer to play mp3s at you at home, or have some form of mp3 monster in the car, that's not what I meant.

[Poll #442057]

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

it requires counting leaf - and only leaf - directories

find . -type d | perl -w thingy.pl

thingy.pl:

$leaves = 0;
$previous = <STDIN>;
chomp($previous);
foreach (<STDIN>) {
  chomp;
  $pos = index($_,$previous);
  if (($pos = 0) && substr($_,length($previous),1) eq "/") {
    # then this one is a subdirectory of the previous one,
    # so the previous one is not a leaf
  } else {
    # this one is not a subdirectory, so because find returns
    # children before siblings, the previous one has no
    # subdirectories
    ++leaves;
   }
   $previous = $_;
}
print 

Or something like that, I haven't tested it. You can make it more concise at the expense of clarity.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Should say "print $leaves, "\n";" at the end.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

897 it says, after typo fixing.

So there you go. Where "there" is, I dunno :)