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search?
by richardwhiuk 10y ago
search?
- __jal 10y agoSo how do you know what type of search you're doing? There were existing text matching algorithms at the time. "No, I mean the kind of car that is really big, that you drive on ice rinks to smooth out the ice."
- flukus 10y agoSearch what? File names? File contents? Users? Machines?
- TeMPOraL 10y agoYou could say the same about "mv". Move what? Files? File names? File parts? Users? Machines? Screens? There's always some default subject implied for every command name. For "find" it is files, for "search" it could have been text.
- flukus 10y ago> You could say the same about "mv". Move what? Files? File names? File parts? Users? Machines? Screens? Files, the base type that's consistent across all the basic commands (AFAIK).
- int_19h 10y agoIt depends on what you mean by "basic command". There are plenty which take arguments that aren't files - chown, chgrp and su, for example.