Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:40:07 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <199706190540.BAA07196@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706190501.OAA25428@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:31:28 %2B0930 (CST))
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>> OTOH, I generally prefer GNU find, since I can do something like >> `find -name foobar' and GNU find will do the equivalent of >> `find . -name foobar -print'. > That kinda breaks the argument syntax for find; everything before the > path is an option, everything afterwards is the expression. If you > add the '.', you get the same behaviour as the BSD find. Doesn't break it, it augments it in a backward-compatible fashion. Just because it means a complete rewrite if you were to try to write an FSM for reading it, doesn't mean it breaks it. Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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