From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:39:50 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <509071940903092029r56612290hcfa33dc434eacfa8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees? Topicbox-Message-UUID: b82763f8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Mar 9 23:30:22 EDT 2009, anothy@gmail.com wrote: > that seems a little awkward. erik's suggestion is what i > think i'd really like. rog's would be okay, although still > somewhatawkward, were i on plan 9; since i'm not, i think > i have russ's option. so with -x, say i had a tree: > > /dog > /cat > /fish/guppie > /fish/clown > /pig > > and i wanted /dog, /cat, and /fish/clown. would three > includes be sufficent there, or do i need it include /fish and > then exclude /fish/guppie, to get the heirarchy? > > i do wish more tools used proto. the format is so nice. oh, you already know what i'm going to suggest, so just get to it! russ: i don't think in understand your motivating case. if you want to flatten /some/long/path/target to just target, why can't you just cd there? there must be some other part i haven't gotten yet. - erik