shell scripting style question

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, at 7:36am, eprice at ptc.com wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, is the only difference between using "find" and "ls
> -R" (in this particular case) that you can use more than one glob
> argument?

  The ls(1) command is oriented more towards human consumption.  The find(1)  
command simple outputs a list of filenames, which is more suitable for
consumption by other programs.

  On occasion, I will use the output of find(1) to drive ls(1), when I want
to select certain files and then display them in a friendly format.  For
example, something like this:

	find -foo bar -baz fum -print0 | xargs -0 ls -hlrt

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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