From: David Herren <david@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T22:30:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Minor thoughts on 'Find' module

Isn't it interesting how we seem to read the same lists....  ;-)


On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 07:44  PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> I think it would be nice to have one or two alternate behaviors
> how 'Find' will process a tree of files and directories.  Right
> now, for any directory in that tree it will process the entries
> in that directory in the order they are found.  Eg:
>     somedir
>     somedir/afile
>     somedir/subdir
>     somedir/subdir/bfile
>     somedir/cfile
>     somedir/otherdir
>     somedir/otherdir/dfile
>     somedir/efile
>
> I think that in some cases it would be useful if you could tell it
> "process all non-directories first", or "process all directories
> first".  Those options would result in:
>     somedir
>     somedir/afile
>     somedir/cfile
>     somedir/efile
>     somedir/subdir
>     somedir/subdir/bfile
>     somedir/otherdir
>     somedir/otherdir/dfile
> and
>     somedir
>     somedir/subdir
>     somedir/subdir/bfile
>     somedir/otherdir
>     somedir/otherdir/dfile
>     somedir/afile
>     somedir/cfile
>     somedir/efile
> or maybe the "depth-first" style of:
>     somedir/subdir/bfile
>     somedir/subdir
>     somedir/otherdir/dfile
>     somedir/otherdir
>     somedir/afile
>     somedir/cfile
>     somedir/efile
>     somedir
>
> I've seen some messages about ways to get ruby to do the depth-first
> trick, but I do not remember those as being options to 'Find', which
> seems to me to be the logical place to have the option.
>
> I realize the current behavior is the optimal behavior, as far as
> performance of 'Find' is concerned, but there are times when the other
> behaviors are preferable.
>
> disclaimer: I'm still pretty new to ruby, so apologies if I have
> just missed something obvious, or if I'm repeating something which
> has been said several times before!
>
> -- Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
>

/david

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