Martin Klingensmith wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
>   
>>    :-)
>>
>> Anyone interviewing someone for a Unix job -- apparently what the  
>> above is -- who said that using an array in the shell directly versus  
>> using a bunch of pipes and an ls command, is a) behind in their  
>> skillset, and b) closed-minded.
>>
>> On the flip side, anyone who stubbornly wouldn't try to do the job the  
>> way the new boss wanted it done during the interview process, no  
>> matter how backwards/stupid it was, is also stupid -- in a different  
>> way.  Being "elitist" to the point of not getting the job, is pretty  
>> silly unless the ae88925 person has plenty of job offers on the  
>> table.  Can't really tell the whole story from the snippet of  
>> discussion without more context.
>>
>> The above discussion could be dissected in a number of ways.  And even  
>> then, the real issue may have been a personality clash between the  
>> interviewer and interviewee.  You can't tell.
>>
>> --
>> Nate Duehr
>> nate@natetech.com
>>   
>>     
> The point was that the interviewer told the candidate that they had to
> use ls. Now we don't know if that was a constraint ahead of time, but I
> interpreted that it was not. If you solve a problem using a solution
> that works, I cannot argue with you that you should have done it my way.
> If I wanted it done my way I would have done it myself right? I can only
> tell you why my way might be better.
>
> Personally, I like the find utility =)
>
> -
> MK
>   

IANABOFH, but I'll add because this is OT anyway:
Using ls or shell completion are both bad ways of doing an operation on
each file because you could have perhaps 1000+ files in your directory.
If you need to execute an operation on a long list of files you should
use the find command and either the -exec option, or create a list in a
temporary file and read each line when you continue your script.
find -exec echo {} \;
find -type d -exec echo {} \;


find -type d > list;
cat list | while read line; do { find "$line" | wc -l; echo " $line"; };
done;

I did a lot of this to manually remove 30,000 "hinet.net" spam from my
mail queue, and to unsort my mp3s that iTunes sorted for me (Thanks.)



-
MK

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