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From: arnold@skeeve.com
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:32:10 -0600
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Replacement for find
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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.