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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More on proper 'find' usage
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:18:32
Message-Id: 20050318011744.374dacfc@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] More on proper 'find' usage by Georgi Georgiev
1 On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:05:18 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
2 wrote:
3 | > find . -name '*foo*'
4 |
5 | Does it make a difference?
6
7 Yes.
8
9 ciaranm@snowdrop portage 0 0.38 $ pwd
10 /home/users/ciaranm/cvs/portage
11 ciaranm@snowdrop portage 0 0.24 $ find . -name *.ebuild | wc -l
12 1
13 ciaranm@snowdrop portage 0 1.63 $ find . -name '*.ebuild' | wc -l
14 18863
15
16 The '' vs "" distinction is more subtle. Sometimes "" is actually what
17 you want. Just not usually...
18
19 ciaranm@snowdrop portage 0 0.80 $ touch \\
20 ciaranm@snowdrop portage 0 0.74 $ ll \\
21 -rw-r--r-- 1 ciaranm users 0 Mar 18 01:15 \
22 ciaranm@snowdrop portage 0 0.68 $ find . -maxdepth 1 -name '\\'
23 ./\
24 ciaranm@snowdrop portage 0 0.53 $ find . -maxdepth 1 -name "\\"
25 ciaranm@snowdrop portage 0 0.47 $
26
27 --
28 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
29 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
30 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm