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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Replacement for find
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:32:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201509301432.t8UEWAhU005172@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8fb44c5359889dbe523888b5451eeb4c@brasstown.quanstro.net>

Is there a C level equivalent of the BSD fts(3) suite of routines?
Or even the System V ftw / GLIBC nftw suite?

I suspect that having this would save some wheel-reinvention in
these kinds of programs.

Thanks,

Arnold

erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

> On Wed Sep 30 01:12:36 PDT 2015, charles.forsyth@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On 30 September 2015 at 09:01, Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@mailbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > > But I consider it ugly, to ask for the disk usage if you just want to
> > > recursively list all files.
> > >
> >
> > It probably is not ideal, even when the circumlocution is hidden in a
> > script.
> > Perhaps find's syntax and conventions could be improved, though?
>
> 9atom has a relative of andrey's find.  it takes very few options.
> the -d and -D options are not easily duplicated with du.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30  8:01 Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30  8:09 ` lucio
2015-09-30  8:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-09-30  8:23   ` hiro
2015-09-30  8:27     ` lucio
2015-09-30 10:34       ` hiro
2015-09-30  9:33     ` Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30  9:58       ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-09-30 10:41         ` Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30 10:45           ` hiro
2015-09-30 10:07       ` Steve Simon
2015-09-30 10:55         ` Mark van Atten
2015-09-30 11:25           ` Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30 13:20   ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-30 14:32     ` arnold [this message]
2015-10-01  0:06       ` sl
2015-09-30 14:57     ` Steven Stallion
2015-09-30 10:31 ` Brantley Coile
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-30  6:26 Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30  6:39 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-09-30  6:54 ` Mark van Atten
2015-09-30  7:39   ` hiro

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