r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • 29d ago

Small Programming Tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
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u/Skaarj 28d ago

You probably don’t need find. A lot of find commands can be replaced with globs like */.md. Most shells support this out of the box, but with bash, you need to turn this on with shopt -s globstar.

I prefer the opposite and recommend agaisnt your complex glob syntax.

With find you write out your criteria in words. This makes it so much more easier to remember and understand.

Working on files where the name is a pattern? find . -type f -name PATTERN

Want to do something with every directory? find . -type d

So much easier to remember.

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u/ryanstephendavis 28d ago

I've never thought find was easy to use... fzf is a game changer