Python vs. Ruby (and os.path.walk)

Steven Atkinson sja at san.rr.com
Fri Aug 9 23:33:36 EDT 2002


I do run cygwin (it's finally replaced MKS for me). Of course, my initial
test are just toys. "Hello world" like programs that can undoubtly be done
easier with my current toolbox. You gotta start somewhere though.

"William Park" <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:mailman.1028917515.13597.python-list at python.org...
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 07:51:46AM -0500, Mark McEahern wrote:
> > > > For crying out loud,
> > > >     find -type f \( -name '*_[ip].c' -o -name '*.th[il]' \) | xargs
rm
> > >
> > > Cool!  I didn't know Windows NT supported "find" and "xargs" like
> > > that...
> >
> > I would assume you need cygwin to run this command on NT.
>
> Yes, sorry.  OP used the word "Linux", and I didn't read past that.
>
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> William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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