On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: > > I do not consider find(1) to be elegant in any way. I agree many ppl use > > it, > > including myself, I just wish we could do without this madness. > > Well, we can not agree in all the points ;). I see find like the best example > of > the eleganty of Unix, do one thing and do it well. Other programs should not > run over directories, and the best example of this problem is tar, which > needs a lot of different options in order to select the correct files, instead > of doing it like cpio, which reads the input list of files from stdin, so > you can use a highly specialized tool for it, that it is of course find.
As this seems to upset the sbase audience, a small sensible subset of the find(1) functionality can be implemented for sbase I suppose.
