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From: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: traverse a directory
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:04:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080102110458.5fb646be@reforged> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prwkw1dw.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu>


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On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:03:39 -0500
jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) wrote:

> Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:51:33 -0800 (PST)
> > Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> wrote:
> >
> >> if i want to recurse into a directory, do i have to write my own?
> 
> I know that doing this in Emacs is especially cool, but "find ...
> exec {}\;" should do the trick.
> 
> Joel
> 

cool maybe, but portable was my reason for doing it this way. BSD find is very different from gnu find. 
some systems don't even have find. exec is a jungle, posix a mirage :)

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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-01 16:51 traverse a directory Xah Lee
2008-01-01 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-02  5:43 ` Mike Mattie
     [not found] ` <mailman.5612.1199252679.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-02 18:03   ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-02 19:04     ` Mike Mattie [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5637.1199300789.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-02 19:25       ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-03  5:51         ` Xah Lee
2008-01-03 11:16           ` Alexey Pustyntsev
2008-01-03 16:25           ` Joel J. Adamson
     [not found]           ` <bf802645-6c07-46d6-b968-1067c1ff4c7f@d21g2000prf.googlegro ups.com>
2008-01-05 17:47             ` OT: " Johan Lindström
2008-01-05  0:46         ` Mike Mattie
     [not found] ` <mailman.5595.1199218943.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-03  4:30   ` Xah Lee

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