From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 9:57:40 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 C742437B404 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9539C43E75 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:57:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 29281 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 16:57:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 16:57:33 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1D8822FDAB2; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:57:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:57:31 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <20020927165731.GN30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020927161753.GL30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200209271623.g8RGNRgg044634@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209271623.g8RGNRgg044634@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 18:23:27 +0200: > Roman Neuhauser 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. -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 6:54PM up 10 days, 2:09, 12 users, load averages: 0.28, 0.09, 0.02 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message