From: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: traverse a directory
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:46:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080104164658.6c19fcbe@reforged> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873atgvxm7.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu>
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On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:25:04 -0500
jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) wrote:
> Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> So I've heard: should I go ahead with installing FreeBSD?
I sure don't know. Whatever you like the best. I just post
code if I think it's apropos. Sometimes it is, and when
it isn't someone usually mentions where the canonical
implementation is located within the Emacs distribution.
> > some systems don't even have find. exec is a jungle, posix a
> > mirage :)
>
> Some systems I've found aren't systematic.
>
> Joel
>
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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
[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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.5595.1199218943.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-03 4:30 ` Xah Lee
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