[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-11-14 20:50, Jim Jackson wrote:
> On 2023-11-14, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> With find it don't matter. Even the original is crazy. The one tool
>> where the Unix paradigm got completely lost...
> 
> I'm baffled by this.
> 
> find finds stuff in the filesystem that match some conditions.
> 
> What else does it do?

Well, the question is - what does it do beyond walking the file system. 
Because it don't stop there.
But first of all, it can walk the file system in different ways, and it 
can do selections while walking the file systems in myriads of ways.
But then when it does match things, it can do all kind of stuff.
Do you even understand how to use "prune" for example? If you do, try it 
and see if it actually gives the result you expect. (Yes, it is possible 
to use in the way one thinks, but it's not trivial to understand how it 
can be used.)

But in the end, find can then run any arbitrary command, might not even 
be related to the files matched, but you can also make it run commands 
with the matching file name put into the command line.

   Johnny