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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD
Date: 26 Aug 1995 13:43:06 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Message-ID: <41n8da$nkl@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <413bkc$3t2@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <1995Aug24.222509.28085@state.systems.sa.gov.au> <41k3vj$e4h@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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In article <41k3vj$e4h@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
> to look like a decent system. The inconsistency of options is
> annoying - I still don't know the BSD for ls -m but it doesn't matter
> any more. I assume there is an equivalent of find -iname and hope to
> find out what it is.
>
>What are both for? (Sorry, i tried to setup a Linux box recently, but
>failed. So i still cannot compare it myself.)
"ls -m" does not appear to have any real use... it formats your
file listing as a comma-delimited list, like this:
% ls -m
a, bin, boot, config, dev, etc, home, lib, lost+found, mnt, mount,
proc, root, sbin, scr, tmp, u, usr, usr1, var, zImage.1.2.8,
zImage.Pt, zImage.new
"find -iname" is a case-insensitive version of -name. Sounds more
useful than "ls -m". ;-) At any rate, the GNU fileutils and
shellutils all compile for FreeBSD right out of the box, so there's no
point comparing OS's in that regard.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org