GNU find script

[jayvdb]

Would you be interested in shipping a find script that implements a GNU find like command line syntax?
It doesnt need to support all GNU find options to be useful.
It would be handy to have as a drop in solution for GNU find on MS Windows, especially for tox tasks.

[ewiger]

@jayvdb before going there, just for my curiosity why not to use msys (as in msysGit) or cygwin or http://babun.github.io and so on - i.e. any project aiming on non-programmatic portability of the command line shell. I would imagine you need many more unix tools once you got _find_, wouldn't you agree?

[jayvdb]

Those are helpful for a reasonable development environment for general use, but tox is a simple environment for predetermined cross-platform rules.
tox prefers python installed scripts, but find and xargs are very handy to perform file operations. findx provides a nicer cli than the gnu clis, but it depends on the gnu tools existing, or fake work-alikes.

urllib3/urllib3#726 is another case where a win32 gnu find would have been helpful.

[ewiger]

Chosing the OS is largly a question of choice. Windows is simply not GNU. There is also much better Linux support with docker for desktop and WSL2 features. I think those are very interesting options to work with.

I am closing this, as there is little I can help with.

However If you are willing to contibute a solution that is still somehow reflects your points, please feel free to open a PR. Thnx.

[ewiger]

On the second thought it could also be that I am missign your point about tox. Can you give a code example how that would look like? Thanks

[jayvdb]

Early I mentioned the tox example - linking deeper: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/pull/726/files#diff-b91f3d5bd63fcd17221b267e851608e8R12 - there I use reFILE , but it is not nearly as nice as the findtools CLI.