Re: An improvment for "ls".

[David T-G]

Nir --

...and then Nir Peled said...
% 
% Hello, I have an idea for the "ls" command...
% A lot of users instead of using the "find" utility uses "ls -R", now.. If I 
...
% [Techdeck @ Techdeck ]-~-> ls -R /home/Techdeck | grep -i milf
% 
% /home/Techdeck/milf0.1:
% milf
% 
% when it should be:
% /home/Techdeck/milf0.1
% /home/Techdeck/milf0.1/milf
% etc.

Thanks for your suggestion, but that's what find is meant to do -- and
not what ls is meant to do!  The "UNIX way" is to have a tool specialize
in a simple function and connect to other tools that do their jobs well,
too, rather than try to have every (or even any) tool do everything all
in the same package.


HTH & HAND

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