Explore File System with Sham

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8 points·iamidly··7 comments

This article was hard to read. Let me ask some questions as feedback to the author.

First I understand they created a program that allows to list directories and output them in a format easily reused in other programs.

But I have questions : 1) What is sham ? 2) Is LSD better than ls ? 3) What is afind ? 4) How is LSD related to code-generation ? 5) Why are we compiling search directives instead of using find directly ? Only for a programming challenge ? If only the output format of LSD is what we want, why not piping find result into LSD ?

All in all, it's not uninteresting but it's missing some key informations to ease the understanding.

i appreciate your feedback. i will answer your questions, but is short on time right now. thank you.

I only wanted to provide feedback, but I will certainly not think about this in the future, so don't feel obligated to answer.

Maybe you can update the article if you think some of these questions are things you want the reader to understand ? I may not be the target of your article too, I am mainly a web dev. Keep writing, I wish I had interesting topics to write about. You seem to have good ideas and projects. And not all stories can become viral on HN !

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Serious question, because I'm not very strong with legacy shells.

Given that I can do all of this easily in powershell, why is the GNU toolset so weak that this utility has any remaining problem to solve?

Did no-one notice in 30 years that bash can't traverse a folder structure?

How did this even 7 points?

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