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
>