From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 9:10: 8 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 0E39137B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380A843E42 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8RGA4mC044132 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:10:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8RGA4Oi044131; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:10:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:10:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200209271610.g8RGA4Oi044131@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge In-Reply-To: <20020927153715.GG30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.6-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-27 17:15:00 +0200: > > 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. > Right. :-) Well, almost. Those primaries which operate on the properties of the inodes are required (-perm, -mtime etc.). Also, some primaries are really required for efficiency, e.g. -prune. But -iname is really just unnecessary bloat, IMO. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message