# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 19:37:15 +0200:
> Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Slower? I don't think that -name "*.[Jj][Pp][Gg]" is any
> slower than -iname "*.jpg".
i was talking about find(1) completely rewritten as a shell script.
> It's nothing more than bloat, which someone thought might be
> "convenient". Next thing someone comes up with is a mail client in
> /usr/bin/find ...
LMFAO
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