Thanks for replying. I agree that find should not modify the filesystem, unless ... And indeed, my intent was to implement the extra functionality, and could not do this in C, because I am not too familiar with C and find as it is now does not permit to do it otherwise, without creating temporary files.
I have looked at bug #11668 at savannah and it looks like others have a similar solution, using a syntax like '-[a|c|m]time [|-|+]"date spec"', which implements the same concept to find files with a time after and/or before an exactly given time. Thanks! Arnoud -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Youngman Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 22:51 To: Witt, Arnoud Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: extended find command It's an interesting concept, but find should not itself modify the filesystem unless the user has explicitly requested this (e.g. via -delete, -exec etc.). Your script also leaks the two temporary files. I recall that http://savannah.gnu.org/ also has a similar feature request for findutils. Perhaps you might take a look at that and find a way to implement this in C (i.e. as a patch to find) which doesn't modify the filesystem. Thanks, James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
