Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:12:56 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find case-insensitive challenge Message-ID: <20020927181256.GS30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <200209271806.g8RI6j1T048566@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20020927175918.GQ30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200209271806.g8RI6j1T048566@lurza.secnetix.de>
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# olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-27 20:06:45 +0200:
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> wrote:
> > # olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-27 19:37:15 +0200:
> > > 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.
>
> OK, sorry then.
np. i was saying that it's just a matter of where you want to stop
because, followed to the limits, your logic would render find(1)
completely redundant.
> I wasn't really suggesting to rewrite find completely as a shell
> script, but merely that _some_ of the "convenience" primaries aren't
> really necessary, including -iname.
> (Incidentally, most of these are non-portable inventions ...)
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