# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 18:23:27 +0200:
> Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 18:10:04 +0200:
> > > Well, almost. Those primaries which operate on the properties of the
> > > inodes are required (-perm, -mtime etc.).
> >
> > not really: ls(1).
>
> ls(1) output is not suitable for parsing, unfortunately.
the point is that emulating find with other tools would be so long
winded that everyone would end up with find written as a shell
script. that would be a lot slower, and someone would reimplement it
in C. thus, saying that -iname is an unnecessary bloat might be
true, but pointless from the practical view.
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