> I do not consider find(1) to be elegant in any way. I agree many ppl use it, > including myself, I just wish we could do without this madness.
Well, we can not agree in all the points ;). I see find like the best example of the eleganty of Unix, do one thing and do it well. Other programs should not run over directories, and the best example of this problem is tar, which needs a lot of different options in order to select the correct files, instead of doing it like cpio, which reads the input list of files from stdin, so you can use a highly specialized tool for it, that it is of course find. Regards, -- Roberto E. Vargas Caballero _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________