On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 4:40:52 AM UTC-7, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
> On 5/6/20 11:28 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: 
> > 
> > And to clarify, this is what you expect users to use instead of 
> > search_src?  ;) 
> > 
>

And to clarify, neither you nor Dima understand ";)"?



> It's an improvement to sage-grep. In another message you said, "It was 
> reimplemented in Python to make it work across platforms... and to make 
> it faster." It's not a fair comparison if you don't write the find-grep 
> command in a portable/efficient way. The one I gave is portable (the 
> trailing "+" was added to POSIX around Y2K) and as fast as possible. 
>
> A script that we ship to end users has to be portable, which is why that 
> command is a mouthful even though most of that syntax has been in "man 
> find" forever. But individual users only need something that works on 
> their machines. So POSIX trivia aside, "do whatever you would normally 
> do to search a bunch of files for a string" is still the best answer, 
> and will be far simpler than a command that needs to work on last week's 
> Fedora and last decade's Solaris. In real life, I would "grep -irl" the 
> whole directory, because that's what I normally do and is easy for me. 
>

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