From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: traverse a directory
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:25:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873atgvxm7.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5637.1199300789.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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?
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 19:25 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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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