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From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:50:05 -0600
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Subject: Re: find -lname and -ilname implemented
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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.