I. Love. Emacs.
Earlier in the week, I needed to extract some performance data from our apache logs. Nothing too crazy, so I whipped it together in Perl.
The log files I needed were placed nightly on a server, so I whipped up a shell script to snag them & bring them locally as well. I need to delete files non-error logs (containing my metrics), and decompress things, but overall it worked well.
Only it required me typing in four commands.
Each day.
Being a geek, I was offended by this & decided to take the five minutes to automate all that as well. After all, I’m smart.
Only that part were I delete files that aren’t error logs?
Well, that included my script.
I had to run ls a few times before I could believe it.
D’oh. So much for smart.
Licking my wounds, a few hours later, I decide to suck it up & just set about writing it again. I fire up emacs and then remember — emacs automatically makes backups! I head over to my autosave-dir directory and — YES! — there is my file!
I think I need to fire-up doctor mode & say thank you.
