Re: RFC: "-contains" option

[Eddie Kohler]

James Youngman wrote:
> exclude=$(find . -name .find-ignore -printf '%h\n' | sort -u)
> find . \! \( -false $( for e in $exclude ; do printf ' -o -name "%s" '
> $e; done) \)

It's about twice as slow as -contains -- as you might expect, since it
traverses the directory structure twice.

find . -type d , -true > /dev/null
   => 1.41s

find . -contains .find-ignore , -true > /dev/null
   => 1.53s

exclude=$(find . -name .find-ignore -printf '%h\n' | sort -u); find . \! \( -false $(for e 
in $exclude ; do printf ' -o -name "%s" ' $e; done) \) , -true > /dev/null
   => 3.06s

3.06s is much much much better than -execdir; but -contains is still
easier to type :)

E