Does Python seem appropriate for me?
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Apr 22 10:57:57 EDT 2001
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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