From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 19:19:28 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 362A237B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D651843E3B for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A15F28F45; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:19:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:19:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: Oliver Fromme , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge In-Reply-To: <20020923082704.GR30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Message-ID: <20020923221802.I20965-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > you can save the grep with > % find foo -type f -iname '*.jpg' | xargs ... > but i think someone already posted this I realized another question - in my five or so years of using the find command, I have never until now used the "-type f" flag to find. Is it really that important or will directories possibly get acted upon badly? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message