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Alaric B. Snell wrote,
> On Wednesday 07 August 2002 15:00, Miles Sabin wrote:
> > How does that help me on the command line? How do I do this,
> >
> > % find . -type f -name "*.java" -print
>
> That nearly answers itself :-)
OK, here's a better example. Suppose I have Foo.java and Foo.class in
the same directory (that's not unusual). The output of ls, looks like
this,
% ls
Foo.class Foo.java
Simply removing the extensions would get you this,
% ls
Foo Foo
which is unhelpful. So you'd probably have some reverse mapping from
MIME types to visible metadata, eg.,
% ls
Foo [application/octet-stream] Foo [text/plain]
Now this still isn't all that helpful, so we'd probably need some type
system that went a bit beyond MIME. We might end up with,
% ls
Foo [java-class] Foo [java-source]
And while we're at it, we might as well have shell globbing recognize
this syntax, ie.,
% ls * [java-source]
% ls Foo [*]
% find -type f -name "* [java-source]" -print
And then, because we're conservative, we notice that if we jiggle the
syntax a little,
' [' -> '.'
']' -> ''
that we get back to something very familiar,
% ls
Foo.java-class Foo.java-source
Can anyone tell me what's _really_ changed ;-)
Cheers,
Miles
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