August 2009

Review of Drupal 6 JS and jQuery
Nate Angell posted a review of Drupal 6, Javascript, and jQuery.

While the review is full of information about the book, its structure, and its intended audience, I was struck more by what I didn't have when writing the book. Nate says:

Today I needed to run a simple script against thousands of identically named files nested in a huge directory structure. What I needed was a quick way to recurse through all of the directories, ignore all of the files I didn't care about, but run a specified command on any files with a particular name.

While this sounds like the sort of thing that will require a couple dozen lines of shell scripting, it can actually be accomplished on a single line with the command find. find has been around for decades, and can be found on almost any UNIX-like file system. It is a simple to used for searching for files within the UNIX directory hierarchy. Honestly, there's not much more to it. Like all good UNIX tools, it does one thing well.