UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,

Just writing to ask if any one can advise on what tools to use best for maintaining your scripts ... preferably free/open source and portable if there is one, that is, one that can be placed and run on a USB stick ...

At the moment, am having them in directories and files and no versioning of any kind.

Any advise or solution of how to put something like this in place, will be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Are these script to be shared among other colleagues? If not, then a primitive solution is to add the date in the filename (format yyyymmdd). If yes, then use a shared folder (also with the date in the filename) or distributed version repository, such as git or mercurial.

You also need to think about some documentation in case someone else needs to find these scripts and knows how to find out how to use them.

A USB stick is not a long term solution, given the inevitable wear and the possibility of the data being wiped when inserting or removing.

Hope this helps

I just had a USB stick die after about 2 years of use, so this is definitely true.