shell scripting style question

[Jerry Feldman]

I think that find has been around longer than cpio. I also think that it is 
an immensely useful Unix utility. Recursive descent was added to commands 
like ls and cp more recently. But, ls is more humanly usable.
"Tom Buskey" wrote:
> 
> bscott at ntisys.com said:
> >  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.
> 
> I think find was targeted for use with cpio originally.  They both had
> the same author.  They deal with arguments and options a bit different
> then the other standard unix tools.
> 
> I'm almost surprised someone hasn't come up with a find replacement that
> "feels" more like the other unix tools.  Tar certainly replaced cpio.
> Then again, find works well as it is and I'm not sure you could replace 
> its syntax as easily.
> 
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