Does Python seem appropriate for me?

[Michael Hudson]

rickp at telocity.com (Rick Pasotto) writes:

> On 22 Apr 2001 15:56:53 +0300 in comp.lang.python, Erno Kuusela wrote:
> > In article <mailman.987895712.26743.python-list at python.org>, "Tim
> > Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > like "ls **/*.py"? (zsh)
> 
> Sorry. That doesn't recurse and it doesn't get files in the current
> directory.

Yes, it does, in zsh.  I knew there was something unholy about that
shell <wink>.

Cheers,
M.

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