Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:10:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <200209271610.g8RGA4Oi044131@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20020927153715.GG30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> 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
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