Globbing

[Adrian Chadd]

find . -type f -name <whatever> | grep *.el$

As long as you're not doing two context switches per line, it should
perform well, and without forking off copies of [ in the old POSIX
case, etc.

I don't get why people keep dissing UNIX shells. Haven't you had to
write a script which ran portably on every real UNIX platform? :)



Adrian

On 14 Feb 2008 11:36:16 GMT, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd120 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" wrote:
>  >likewise, with find for subdirs (not POSIX):
>  >
>  >find . -name '*.el" -exec sh -c 'for f; do [ -f "${f}c" ] || echo  "$f"; done' dummy {} +
>
>
> which gives me
>  bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
>
>  The reason is a mismatched quote pair around *.el, which I only
>  realised when cut-and-pasting your command into emacs with syntax
>  highlighting enabled.  I'm impressed that you sent it without trying
>  it first, and got it right except for a trivial typo.  But for the
>  rest of us, doing non-trivial things with the shell is often not worth
>  the effort.
>
>  For me already python is faster, and not just in terms of thinking
>  things through. For example, I tried creating 100,000 files and
>  removing them with the "rm" function that you suggested a few emails
>  ago.  It did the job but took a good long time, and this is a fairly
>  fast opteron workstation.  In that time, I could have written a python
>  program to parse a list of files and remove each one....
>
>  A more powerful shell is badly needed.  (I believe zsh and others are
>  vast improvements on bash, I should check them out.) Of course, not a
>  topic for kernel at ...
>
>
>  Rahul
>


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Adrian Chadd - adrian at freebsd.org