{"id":665,"date":"2006-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/01\/14\/603\/"},"modified":"2006-01-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T23:00:00","slug":"603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/01\/14\/603\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Vogel at ONLamp.com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlamp.com\/pub\/a\/onlamp\/2005\/12\/15\/organizing_files.html\" title=\"ONLamp.com: Organizing Files\">Organizing Files<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The problem: the filesystem on my Unix workstation was a mess. I couldn&#8217;t find anything without grepping all over creation. About half the time, I&#8217;d actually find something useful. Usually I&#8217;d get no hits at all, or I&#8217;d match something like a compiled binary and end up hosing my display beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] I went so far as to buy a copy of the Abridged Dewey Decimal Catalog, which is actually pretty nifty; if you&#8217;re looking to organize your paper files, you could do a lot worse than use an existing classification scheme like this.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] My job as a system administrator doesn&#8217;t change every day, but it&#8217;s much easier to keep track of things via date rather than via subject. I tend to remember things in time order, so I finally stopped trying to change the way I work to fit some hierarchy. Instead, I made a directory structure on the machine to match my work habits.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Vogel at ONLamp.com &#8211; Organizing Files: &#8222;The problem: the filesystem on my Unix workstation was a mess. I couldn&#8217;t find anything without grepping all over creation. About half the time, I&#8217;d actually find something useful. Usually I&#8217;d get no hits at all, or I&#8217;d match something like a compiled binary and end up hosing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}