chatGPT Lessons and Tips

Looks like using blogger to create the content is a fatal mistake. Next time, use MS Word and then paste into Blogger!

https://github.com/ananthchellappa/perl/blob/master/search.pl and watch your productivity grow. It previously supported files specified directly with -f (more than one OK) and lists of files -l (more than one OK). I was using it with -l /path/tol/listfile.txt and the listfile.txt had to be updated each time I created a new file with "notes." If you're thinking that's lame, you're right - even once a month is too often :) First attribute of great programmers - impatience. And I'm not :) Now, how do I get someone else to use it - on Teams, I showed them how they could create the list of files using ls or find and then set up the alias. During that conversation - "Maybe it should have an option to support directories." Three days later, done. How? Read on. I had done a spaghetti-code version of the script more than 10 years ago. About a year ago, I got a professional perl coder on Upwork to clean it up and add features. Result : works great, but h...