SysFileTree on Linux

in 37770 20080402 175535 Michael Lueck <mlueck@lueckdatasystems.com> wrote:
>Bob Martin wrote: 
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>I hope this helps.


Hi Michael,

thanks for running the test, the same results as me, more or less.

I have a file in my home dir named .jedit/macros/.process.bsh.marks
and neither the normal search (~/*) nor the "dot-search" (~/.*) found
this file.

I think the normal search goes down through the dir hierarchy, ignoring
dot files and dot directories.  This is fine for normal use and I have used
it in dozens of programs without thinking too much about it.
The "dot search" seems to go down the hierarchy returning files and dirs
which start with a dot but not searching dirs which do not start with a dot
after it has reached a dot directory.  (Awful explanation, but the best I ca
n manage.)
This explains why I don't see my  .jedit/macros/.process.bsh.marks file
and why your earlier test worked.
This makes the "dot search" useless, but as it probably wasn't designed to
work this way one can't complain.  I couldn't suggest how it might otherwise
function.

Thanks for your help.  For my current task I'll list *all* the files with vd
ir
and parse the output.