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Robert A Duff wrote:
> The way they did it simply doesn't work.

That's fine. UNIX follows the "worse is better" philosophy
(<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better>). The UNIX
way is simple and works most of the time. Most lists of
files are small enough. Most files have only short lines.

>> I don't understand. Doesn't "find" have exactly the interface that you
>> claim to want?
> Certainly not.  I use find all the time, and I hate it.

I meant that "find" takes a pattern as an argument.