On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:36:51PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 01/10/2021 17:15, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 05:03:11PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 15/09/2021 19:36, Bruce Richardson:
> > > > On FreeBSD, "find" does not support the "printf" flag, so we need to
> > > > use "gfind" from the "findutils" package.
> > > 
> > > It is one more dependency.
> > > Shouldn't we avoid it by rewritting the shell commands with loops?
> > >
> > Probably in the longer term, yes. If I get the chance, I'll try and rewrite
> > this script, but let's keep this patch in the queue in case I don't get to
> > in the 21.11 timeframe.
> 
> OK
> I can help with the shell tricks if needed.
> 
Well, I was actually considering a rewrite in python for two reasons:
* easy FS scans using the "walk()" function
* portability across OS's [which is the main reason for the work after all]

/Bruce

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