That's why I stuck with vi and sh back in the day: I knew they were on every machine I might telnet to (this was before ssh, sigh). On machines I controlled, I

That's why I stuck with vi and sh back in the day: I knew they were on every machine I might telnet to (this was before ssh, sigh). On machines I controlled, I mostly used ksh, but it wasn't available on all machines; I cannot remember if it was the SunOS boxes or the older HP-UX or the Apollos, but there were a few. (csh? Go away. No, just go.) Nowadays, vim and bash are everywhere I need them to be, even if I have to kludge around some version differences. My only real gripe about find is the awkwardness of pruning multiple hierarchies. After you've written find / -path /sys -prune -o -path /dev -prune -o ... -o -type f -exec grep -H WHATEVER {} \; a few times, and have returned to the previous command to add yet another -o -path ... -prune tuple, it gets a little old. But it works. Everywhere. (* that I need it)