Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:43:34 +0100
"Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
After all, if use of find or xargs accomplishes the task w/o ill
effects on memory, then what prevents creation of a compiled utility
that has that same sort of 'flavor' of approach - just hard-wired
from the get-go?
It would have to be a shell builtin
An assumption based on legacy.
rm() {
.....
Sweet, it never occurred to me that a shell function would do to
bypass the exec limit - and I was thinking that some sort of plugin
mechanism to extend shell builtins would come in handy forgetting that
there already was one.
Guess even a blind hog can (inspire others to) find an acorn e'vry once
in a while....
Now if I can figure out what I'm doing that the substitutiuon in the
case statement doesn't like .. aside from working in ksh on OpenBSD 'coz
nuthin else is close by at the mo'
WTH - sun's up here in chilly HKG. Must be bedtime ....
Later,
Bill
