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[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:

> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Richard Jones uttered the following:
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:59:52PM +0000, Simon Faulkner wrote:
>>> Why don't we like find?
>> 
>> I'm not speaking for anyone else, but _I_ don't like 'find(1)' because
>> the syntax is verbose, difficult, and not very Un*x-like.
>
> One thing I wonder is if anyone's written a better replacement. (Fading

Python?

(Yes, I know what you mean.)

> memories tell me that find(1) was *deliberately* written to be non-
> Unixlike in syntax...)
>
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