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 :)