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Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
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Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:21:31 -0800

At 22:36 -0800 1/28/02, Jon Pugh wrote:
>Of course, cosmic unix power doesn't get you anything like the way cool
>implementation of things like "walk folders" which doesn't have any
>corresponding unix tool with the simplicity it provides.

Unix
find
can be induced to do many of the things people use walk folders for. Given
-exec blah blah and Perl or shell scripts, that "many" can probably become
"most".

--John

--
John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA


References: 
 >Re: Scripting Addition w/ Dialog Boxes (OS X) (From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>)
 >Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix (From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>)

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