From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 10:59:26 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 EC94C37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BCBE43E42 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 29711 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 17:59:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 17:59:21 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 787632FDAB2; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:59:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:59:18 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <20020927175918.GQ30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020927165731.GN30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200209271737.g8RHbFqQ047119@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209271737.g8RHbFqQ047119@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 19:37:15 +0200: > 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". i was talking about find(1) completely rewritten as a shell script. > 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 ... LMFAO -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 7:57PM up 10 days, 3:12, 13 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.05, 0.01 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message