From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-06-03T10:09:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding all applications

Chris Gehlker wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions, Sean. Mac OS does provide BSD locate but
> it's broken. The problem is that crontabs is set up by default to update

<laugh>
That is /so/ typical.  Not of Mac OS, but of software distributions in 
general.

> I agree. I really don't need it to be portable though.

Oh, well, then fix locate.

>> And OS/X doesn't provide a command-line interface to this API?
> 
> I don't think so. I stumbled over a few command line tools that aren't in
> the man pages anywhere but I searched the documentation and couldn't find
> anything like this.

Too bad.  It might be worth hacking a tool.  It couldn't be too hard.

>>       find / -type f -perm +1
> 
> That won't work here. It barfs on the +.

Quote the "+".

> In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of
> great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. -Chinese proverb

I stole this quote.  Probably from you :-)

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