Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:50:05 -0600 From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find -lname and -ilname implemented Message-ID: <86c537e091aaaebaf6ba00e5259c5eb1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080224.124339.-1302545914.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20080222.225937.-146245356.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080223.000308.686168314.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080224171155.GD51827@dracon.ht-systems.ru> <20080224.124339.-1302545914.imp@bsdimp.com>
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Instead of all the debate about GNU compatibility and the fact that the
patch adds a feature not readily available, why not improve FreeBSD's
find without caring about GNU's find? I have not seen a way to capture
output from a command and compare it to another command. Imagine
something conceptually like `find . -type l -execout readlink '{}' \;
-eq "foobar.txt" -print`? Then it's possible to achieve the same
possibility as -lname, and far far more. You could search for all
files with "foobar" in the last ten lines of the file even. The
closest "viable" option to this that I know of is find2perl, and then
custom editing.
Not to mention, I imagine you'd soon see GNU find struggling for
FreeBSD find compatibility.
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