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

Yves Parès limestrael at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 12:38:34 EDT 2010


Thanks for the HSH link, Magnus.

Concerning FileManip, it seems that I can't perform easily a
case-insensitive search (for instance with find, you just use -iname instead
of -name). Am I wrong?


2010/8/22 Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>

> 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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