Re: Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008)

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :> it's called "|/" here) that works like xargs built-in.
> :>=20
> :> find . -name "*.c" |/ rm -f "%"
> :>=20
>
>     find . -name "*.fubar" -delete
>
>     In anycase, I don't think people quite grasp that there is no solution
>     to the csh-globbing issue.  You could allocate memory dynamically, sure,
>     and what happens when your glob pattern results in twenty million files?
>     or a billion files?  You sit there twiddling your thumbs for four 
>     hours while csh eats up all the memory on your machine and everything
>     comes to a grinding stop.  It doesn't work.
>
>     People need to learn to use find, xargs, awk, etc.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>


All manner of insects have been found preserved in amber, so why not a 
DragonFly?

But they didn't *choose* to be fossilized.

Bill