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From: ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E. Saddler III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Subdirectory listing
Summary: Response from a [guilty] person to an innocent one ;^}
Message-ID: <2678@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 89 16:13:38 GMT
References: <11619@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <11619@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) tells us:
#
# [many many bytes of flame-data deleted, except for his slam about
#  my contribution which causes him great pain: ]
# 
# 9: Give this script a spin around the block
# 

Jon, thanks for not providing my name to protect my guilt, you have
impeccable class!

#
#    [shell script that (get a load of this!) takes each directory
#    specified on the command line and runs "find <dir name> -type d
#    -exec ls -d {} \;" on it]
# 

Heh!  Whatta maroon!  Can you beleive it?!

#
# Gee, it looks like you know about the find(1) command, but you're
# completely confused.... has it occurred to you that find takes
# multiple paths on the command line, or that the user asked for a
# recursive listing and your script will not list recursively?  I
# thought not.
# 

Gee, Jon, you're right!  I *did* notice after posting, that I had a
misaligned head; I'm used to seeking a full 'ls' with full pathnames
in my find-on-the-fly usage of: find <dir> -exec ls -ldF {} \;

So, after realizing this, an attemt to 'C'ancel using readnews was
done, but I was told by the readnews software that I couldn't cancel
something I didn't create, (which wasn't the case).

I'm glad you brought my error and infraction of protocol to public
attention, you see, ignorant people like myself need to be made
examples of.

#   OK, I'm off my soapbox.  I feel much better now.

I'm so glad.  I suppose an e-mail message to you would have been
more appropriate, but I felt that a public acknowledgement [might]
be meaningful, it seems to have worked for you.  Have a nice day.

> Jonathan Kamens			              USnail:
> MIT Project Athena				410 Memorial Drive, No. 223F
> jik@Athena.MIT.EDU				Cambridge, MA 02139-4318
> Office: 617-253-4261			      Home: 617-225-8218


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