Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature

From	Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature
Date	2019-06-14 09:07 -0400
Organization	NewsGuy.com
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On 6/14/19 8:11 AM, Javier wrote:
> It's much easier to learn a few options of find than to memorize the
> different incompatible options of each tool.  An extreme example are
> the file selection options of tar and rsync.  Both have dozens of
> different options for file selection.  Knowing the 30 tar options for
> file selection is useless when you use rsync.

I remember a plotting subroutine, called tplot if I remember correctly,
that had about 34 arguments. The first two arguments were pointers to
the arrays containing the x and y values. It could do anything.

But people started writing simplified versions of it taking far fewer
arguments, and then calling tplot. There were so many that choosing
among them became too difficult, and I just learned to use tplot directly.

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tip: sweet grep recurse feature T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-13 03:15 -0700
  Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-13 08:46 -0500
    Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2019-06-13 09:51 -0400
      Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 09:17 -0600
    Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-06-13 11:22 -0400
      Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 09:56 -0600
      Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-13 17:29 +0100
        Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-06-13 15:38 -0400
          Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-14 09:49 +0100
            Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-14 04:39 -0500
              Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-14 12:11 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-14 07:11 -0500
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2019-06-14 09:07 -0400
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-14 12:44 -0600
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2019-06-14 14:20 -0500
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-06-15 03:18 +0000
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2019-06-14 23:05 -0500
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2019-06-17 09:44 +0300
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Fenris <fenris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-17 10:21 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-14 12:50 -0600
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-15 13:37 +0200
              Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-06-14 08:01 -0400
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-14 12:55 -0600
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-06-14 17:54 -0400
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-14 20:20 -0600
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-15 13:42 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-15 11:09 -0600
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-17 12:37 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-17 12:51 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-17 12:57 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-17 14:20 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-17 08:51 -0600
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-17 19:43 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-17 20:38 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-17 13:07 -0600
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-17 21:56 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Georges <georges@prout.com> - 2019-06-17 22:30 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-17 22:19 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-17 19:43 -0600
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-18 10:26 +0200
                Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-06-18 23:58 +0000
            Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-06-14 08:07 -0400
      Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-13 19:42 +0100
  Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-06-13 14:58 -0400
    Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 14:29 -0600
      Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-06-13 16:38 -0400
  Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-06-15 03:10 +0000
    Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-15 13:46 +0200
      Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-15 13:16 +0100
        Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-06-15 13:16 +0000
          Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-15 11:12 -0600
            Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-15 22:26 +0100
          Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-06-15 20:09 +0000
    Re: tip: sweet grep recurse feature T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-16 14:29 -0700

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