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On 07/06/2011 13:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro allegedly wrote:
> The following one-liner sets the versionName attribute in
> AndroidManifest.xml to a number based on the number of days (accurate to
> 0.1 day) since the *nix epoch. This is what I’ve been using for a
> version number in one or two projects, in lieu of anything that makes
> more sense. :)
> 
> sed -i -r 's/(android:versionName=\")[^\"]*(\")/\1'"$(bc <<<"scale = 1; ($(Julian -f) - $(Julian -d 1970 1 1)) / 1")"'\2/' AndroidManifest.xml
> 
> This needs my “Julian” script, available here
> <https://github.com/ldo/Julian>. Though it can probably be rewritten
> to do without it, using the GNU “date” command instead...

That's so awesome! I wanna have sex with you right now.