Forwarded to the main PLUG list from the PH Linux Newbie forum: Quoting eric pareja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > $ less `find ~ -name "*bread*"` > > But you use shell specific features for that. That isn't "portable". Of > course, most modern shells support the backtic, but then. The veteran speaks. Seriously, though, I think this points out that it's important for a lot of us Linux users (who started out with Linux and without any Unix background) to get at least a little grounding in Unix. While Linux is not strictly a Unix in the historical "family tree" sense of it, I believe they share a lot of fundamental traits. Which reminds me: I have yet to read Eric's Unix book. Hehehe. :) On the topic of optimization: on the XFS list we were talking about using find to make chacl recursive (now it already has the capability to recurse, but it's still very young and nowhere near truly being usable). One guy mentioned that using the results of find piped to xargs was more optimal performance-wise compared to using find's -exec. Has anyone ever looked into this? I have yet to try both and actually see for myself (I should be a able to do a very simple benchmark using time and running the chacl across my entire Samba directory which is on XFS), but maybe someone's thought about this before. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
