[Haskell-cafe] Perform a research a la Unix 'find'

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Sun Aug 22 12:34:37 EDT 2010


On 22/08/10 16:32, Yves Parès wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to recode in Haskell a piece of bash program that uses find.
> The advantage of find is that it is quite easy to use and fast.
> Is there a package that let us access to find-like functionnalities, with
> similar performances? Or at least some C functions that could be used
> through the FFI?
> (I would like to avoid to recur through directories and match files myself,
> I tried it and the search lasts for ages).

Take a look at HSH on hackage.  I've used that many times to inject some
sanity into stuff that I used to do with bash.

/M

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