From: Rick Bradley <rick@...>
Date: 2002-06-15T23:38:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Are Unix tools just slow?

* Tobias Reif (tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com) [020615 04:20]:
> Funny thing:
> 
> man find
> 
> [...] UNIX Programmer's Manual
> [...]
> BUGS
>      The syntax is painful.

BUGS
     The special characters used by find are also special characters to many
     shell programs.  In particular, the characters ``*'', ``['', ``]'',
     ``?'', ``('', ``)'', ``!'', ``\'' and ``;'' may have to be escaped from
     the shell.

     As there is no delimiter separating options and file names or file names
     and the expression, it is difficult to specify files named -xdev or !.
     These problems are handled by the -f option and the getopt(3) ``--'' con-
     struct.

     The -delete primary does not interact well with other options that cause
     the filesystem tree traversal options to be changed.

Yours must be more recent than mine (as that seems to be a more succint
way of saying the above).  ;-)

Rick
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