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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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