Re: Script for when system was last updated

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote:
> [...]
> Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that would put 
> up an xmessage saying when the system was last updated, when I boot up Lenny?
>
> Much appreciation to all you scripting gurus out there.
>
> Nigel.

I'm hardly a scripting guru, but this may help you a bit:

#!/bin/bash
hist_files="$HOME/tmp/tmp/history-files"
lastupd=`ls $hist_files | sort -n | tail -1`
xmessage "The system was last updated on $lastupd"