From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 10:37:19 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 22DB537B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC3E43E6A for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:37:17 -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 g8RHbFmC047120 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8RHbFqQ047119; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200209271737.g8RHbFqQ047119@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: <20020927165731.GN30361@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: > 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. Slower? I don't think that -name "*.[Jj][Pp][Gg]" is any slower than -iname "*.jpg". It's nothing more than bloat, which someone thought might be "convenient". Next thing someone comes up with is a mail client in /usr/bin/find ... 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