On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:35:12 -0500 James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote: > >>>>> "CM" == Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> writes: > CM> That's what's known as "doing it wrong". You should be querying > CM> your package mangler for a list of categories, not doing an 'ls'. > > ls(1) isn't relevant. find(1) is. grep(1) is. There are others. > > Using the 'package managers' isn't very helpful. They generally do > everything poorly. And usually **s*l*o*w*l*y**, if they compile at > all.
On the other hand, they do things correctly, which your approach doesn't. > I can't even remember every time I've needed to use a regex, glob or > other pattern match where the fact that the real categories had a dash > made things easier and faster. But wrong. If you want wrong answers quickly, cat /dev/urandom. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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