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Re: [OT] Recursive dir (linux)

• Posted by ChrisBurch2 <crylex at freeuk.co.uk> Oct 16, 2006
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ags wrote:
> 
> 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?? 

Hehe - I started, then doing it this or that way intrigued me, and I too got
lost in man page heaven!

Chris
> 
> Gary