Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not just speed. In many cases you can use find|xargs to get a similar > result, but there are cases where he ** thingy is difficult to emulate with > other tools. One example I've used releatedly is > > for f in **/CVS/Root; do ... done > > if you havedirectories named "CVS" that don't have a "Root" fine in them, > the above code is difficult to simulate with find.
Unless you have GNU find. $ find -path "*/CVS/Root" | ... Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
