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Re: Globbing


From: Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:26:17 +0000

Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
But the question was to find such all such files in a directory tree,
not just in the current directory.
No, the original question mentioned only a single directory.
Someone lese then asked about a directory tree.

My mistake, sorry. I took the example from the unix hater's handbook where the question is of a directory tree (which is why the writer tries to use find), but paraphrased it sloppily.

Rahul

This is getting comical!


The *original* task was to delete all files in a single subdir.

Regardless.

But w/o panicing a running IMAP daemon that might want to add a few new ones during the process.

It was, after all, a Maildir/.Trash folder..

My Forth-legacy inclination would have been to simply bitch-slap the relevant inode(s) and tell them to forget whatever-TF they thought they knew.

But BSD was probably never that simple...

No Joys, no toys...

;-)

Bill





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