OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] Recursive dir (linux)

• Posted by ags <eu at 531pi.co.nz> Oct 16, 2006
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ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> 
> ags wrote:
> > tar, eg:
> > 
> > tar cvf - ~/euphoria/*.e* | tar xf - -C ~/tempdir
> > 
> > (Will make a folder 'euphoria' under tempdir)
> 
> Hi
> 
> Again, strangley, that only did the top level. I think the reasoning goes
> something like, I have no directories that match *.e*.
> 
> Th find technique works fine, since even if duplicate files are picked from
> one line to another, I wanted these anyway.

Heh, that's the problem with *nixes I find.  You can spend hours reading a man
page to figure out how to do one particular task, then forget it when you need it
several years later 

I'm glad find worked, that's another one I spent days reading several man pages
for to figure out how to get the 'and execute this' bit working with the proper
shell escape sequences for bash.

These days I tend to just write scripts to do stuff straight away, I'm over the
"these Unix guys knew how to do things properly so they must be right" buzz. :)

So, er, yeah, why not just write something in Euphoria to do it?? 

Gary