>> 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" | ... Damn! Now everybody knows that I haven't updated my knowledge of `find' during the last 10 years! Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel