Re^2: Open Files in Unix

Rather than using an external, non-portable program...

But 'find' is quite portable. Furthermore, the OP mentioned in his title he was using Unix. 'find' has not only been ported to all Unix flavour, it's also found on (almost) any Unix system.

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Re^3: Open Files in Unix by oko1 (Deacon) on Oct 08, 2008 at 16:50 UTC
Is it? Please try "find -iname '*foo'" or "find -regextype posix-egrep '[abc]\.html'" on, say, a Solaris system - or one with OS/X. A plain "find" (i.e., no options) would serve the OP's purpose - but it is not portable, and its use in scripts should be discouraged. -- "Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about." -- B. L. Whorf	[reply]
Re^4: Open Files in Unix by JavaFan (Canon) on Oct 08, 2008 at 19:11 UTC
You mean, as opposed to the POSIX egrep semantics of the Perl regexp engine? Oh wait. It's kind of silly to come up with exotic options of one implementation a find to claim it's non-portable when 1) the OP doesn't need them and 2) said exotic options aren't available in File::Find without a lot of work either.	[reply]
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