From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 8:37:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A928737B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2837643E3B for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 28672 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 15:37:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 15:37:16 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 55F012FDAB2; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:37:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:37:15 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <20020927153715.GG30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020927125254.GY30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200209271515.g8RFF0ho041865@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209271515.g8RFF0ho041865@lurza.secnetix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-27 17:15:00 +0200: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > # olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-27 14:36:48 +0200: > > > The problem with that is that it's not portable. I try > > > to avoid getting used to such non-portable features. > > > Typing an extra grep is faster than using -iname and > > > then finding out that it's not working on Solaris. ;-) > > > > have you tried bugging Sun? ;) > > That wouldn't make it any more portable. > Bugging the Open Group _might_ be more useful. right. > But then again, it's against the UNIX philosophy. > In UNIX, you've got a tool for every job, and the power > of the system comes from combining those tools. There > is no need to duplicate functionality in multiple tools. according to this logic find(1) shouldn't have any primaries at all. -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 5:35PM up 10 days, 49 mins, 12 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.07, 0.04 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message