Does Python seem appropriate for me?

Weiqi Gao weiqigao at networkusa.net
Mon Apr 23 21:43:07 EDT 2001


Holland King wrote:
> 
> Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
> : the littlest things will drive you mad.  Trivial example:  say you use
> 
> :     dir/s *.py
> 
> : today to find all the .py files in the subtree rooted at the current
> : directory.  You're not going to *believe* the hoops you have to jump through
> : to get that done under a Unix shell instead.  If you have someone around to
> 
> how about:
> find . | grep *.py

To acomplish what dir/s *.py does, you have to do something like this :(

find . -name "*\.[Pp][Yy]" -exec ls -l {} \;

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Weiqi Gao
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