Re: RFC: "-contains" option

[James Youngman]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Eddie Kohler <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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

There is a -prune missing from both find expressions there I think.
The first can be pruned because once we find a .find-ignore file we
don't need to search for more .find-ignore files in subdirectories.
The second needs a -prune because that's the point of putting the
.find-ignore file there.

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

It's fair to say I think that my concern around -contains has to do
with the fact that it seems to be an extra feature designed for only
one use case.   I avoid adding new features which only have limited or
special-case uses.

Can you think of a more generally useful (i.e. more generic) feature
which might also lend itself to your problem?

James.