find expressions
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Fri Mar 10 20:09:10 UTC 2006
On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:53 pm, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> Im having a problem building packages which use find expressions not
> supported by busybox find.
>
> One example is 'find . -type f ! -perm -200'. Reiser4progs use this a
> lot. uClibc and Busybox also other forms. Is there an equivalent using
> only the find applet? Im installing findutils for now.
>
> Is it better to add the '!' operator support or modify the scripts? I
> tend towards modifying the scripts.
One of the items in our TODO file is to upgrade find to be full susv3.
> Is it better to add generic expression support in busybox? So all
> commands can use them?
What other commands are you referring to?
Rob
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