[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Jim Jackson]

On 2023-11-15, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 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.

Yes it can ANOTHER command, big deal - vi is an editor and you can run 
a command from it, so what.

As I said above find finds stuff in the filesystem that match some conditions.
The fact that the filesystem is complex, so the condition matching is 
complex is by-the-by.

Find does one thing and does it well.