From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 9:17:58 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 280F637B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E951743E4A for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 28995 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 16:17:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 16:17:54 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5795A2FDAB2; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:17:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:17:53 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <20020927161753.GL30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020927153715.GG30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200209271610.g8RGA4Oi044131@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209271610.g8RGA4Oi044131@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 18:10:04 +0200: > 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.). not really: ls(1). > Also, some primaries are really required for efficiency, e.g. -prune. > But -iname is really just unnecessary bloat, IMO. -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 6:15PM up 10 days, 1:29, 12 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message