Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:57:31 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <20020927165731.GN30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <200209271623.g8RGNRgg044634@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20020927161753.GL30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200209271623.g8RGNRgg044634@lurza.secnetix.de>
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# olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-27 18:23:27 +0200:
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> wrote:
> > # olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-27 18:10:04 +0200:
> > > Well, almost. Those primaries which operate on the properties of the
> > > inodes are required (-perm, -mtime etc.).
> >
> > not really: ls(1).
>
> ls(1) output is not suitable for parsing, unfortunately.
the point is that emulating find with other tools would be so long
winded that everyone would end up with find written as a shell
script. that would be a lot slower, and someone would reimplement it
in C. thus, saying that -iname is an unnecessary bloat might be
true, but pointless from the practical view.
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