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Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure
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RB |
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Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure |
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Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:59:41 -0600 |
> Would the two of you be able to be able to pull this into a
> (what-I-wanted-to-achieve, command, explanation-of-how-it-works) form
> so that we can put it into the Texinfo documenation? (And, length
> permitting, the manual page).
Since I was already familiar with manual page syntax and aspire to
terseness, here's a preliminary stab at what *might* work for that.
Please criticize or modify as needed; I'm not attached to much of my
work.
I'm assuming the Texinfo page would need to be a little more
explanatory and should stylistically fit with section 8 or 9; is that
the case?
Following is a patch against find.1 from findutils-4.3.13:
--- find.1.orig 2008-03-19 22:22:50.240612504 -0600
+++ find.1 2008-03-19 22:56:23.749388656 -0600
@@ -1903,6 +1903,22 @@
this is the default anyway, but the parentheses help to show
what is going on.
+.P
+.nf
+.B find repo/ \e( \-exec [ \-d {}/.svn ] \e\; \-o \-exec [ \-d
{}/.git ] \e\; \e) \-print \-prune
+
+.fi
+Search for the roots of specific SCM repositories in an efficient
+manner. As opposed to the prior example, the parentheses play
+a critical role in combination with
+.B \-prune
+to prevent descent into directories that have already been
+discovered. A more general way to express this behavior is
+"Find the shallowest instances of repeated leaf nodes in a
+given tree." This example was derived from a need to maintain
+source synchronization with multiple projects that used
+varying SCM tools and tree management ideologies.
+
.SH EXIT STATUS
.PP
.B find
- Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, RB, 2008/03/18
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, Bob Proulx, 2008/03/19
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, RB, 2008/03/19
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, Bob Proulx, 2008/03/19
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, James Youngman, 2008/03/19
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, RB, 2008/03/19
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, James Youngman, 2008/03/19
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, Bob Proulx, 2008/03/19
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure,
RB <=
- Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure, James Youngman, 2008/03/20