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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Crafty automatic file deletion?
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Date: 28 Mar 91 05:15:36 GMT
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In article <126507@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
   Otherwise, First pick all the files matching this pattern, then process them.

	   find ~ -name "*.rm.*.*" -print | maybe-remove

   Of course now you have to write the latter program.
   A good language to write it in would be perl.

If maybe-remove is written in perl, then it is ridiculous to do the
find in a separate process, since the perl can do it in the same
process as the maybe-remove stuff.

Doesn't the perl distribution come with "find2perl" or something like
that?

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