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Article #1421Re: Why use find?
From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 1990 06:04
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 1990 06:04
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In article <1990Oct7.001518.14216@diku.dk> kimcm@diku.dk (Kim Christian Madsen) writes: >cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >Maybe not on your system, but on my system (a SYSV) system, find perfoms >a getpwd(3C) each time it enters a directory, and getpwd(3) is by >standard implemented by forking a shell to do a pwd(1) in oorder to >get the result ... This makes it slow. What an idiotic way to implement that function. It's also stupid of whoever sent out such a hopelessly slow version of find without optimizing that. Bitch at your vendor. Are all AT&T versions really this dumb? >How about grouping selection criterias and the precedence of the -a and >-o (and & or) operators when grouping selection criterias ??? Ug. 1 criterion. 2 or more criteria. Never criterias. --tom -- "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." [Doug Gwyn]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!radar!milano!bigtex!texsun!convex!convex.COM From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Why use find? Message-ID: <106928@convex.convex.com> Date: 7 Oct 90 06:04:04 GMT References: <1990Oct5.145825.9454@diku.dk> <1990Oct06.011438.8265@virtech.uucp> <1990Oct7.001518.14216@diku.dk> Sender: usenet@convex.com Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 21