Although I like `find`, use it all the time, and think it is important, I agree that it's not for novices. To use it most effectively requires regexes and being able to use other simpler commands as arguments to the '-exec' flag.
It is also possible to get by without it; but as soon as someone does need its functionality, it will show up in search results. Eg, when I google "linux how show all subdirectories", `find` is mentioned in *all* of the results on the first page. ~ Tim On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 08:47:12PM -0400, Greg Wilson wrote: > I'm -1: > > - 'rm', 'mv', and 'cp' correspond to operations they're familiar > with from GUIs > > - the syntax of 'find' is truly awful... > > - ...and 'grep' isn't much better > > Thx, > G > > On 2015-05-28 8:37 PM, Ivan Gonzalez wrote: > >Hmm, it may be interesting. In my experience, people don't really get the > >benefits of the command line interface with cp, rm et al, so maybe showing > >first something they can't do (easily) using the graphical interface is > >worthy. > > > >Ivan > > > >El 28/05/2015, a las 20:22, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> escribió: > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>what do you think of teach grep and find before rm, mv and cp? > >> > >> From my experience, students really like discovery grep and find > >>but sometimes we don't cover it due time constrains. > >> > >>Cheers, > >>Raniere > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Discuss mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Discuss mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > -- > Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] > Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
