[pass] find command: merged to tree, but tree-command patch required

[Von Welch]

+1 to Matthew's comments.

I've been using my own find-based functions for a while happily and would
like to understand what tree gets me.

Von
On Apr 14, 2014 10:34 AM, "Matthew Cengia" <mattcen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2014-04-14 15:02, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > We now have the long-desired find/search command:
> >
> http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/commit/?id=df83c64c102fb8c22535e5fd8fd2557c19671929
> >
> > Unfortunately, we rely on a patch to tree for it:
> >
> http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/contrib/tree-1.6.0-matchdirs.patch
> >
> > Hopefully upstream tree will merge it, but I'm a bit doubtful. In
> > event that they don't, we probably need to start talking to distros to
> > popularize our patch and get it everywhere. Any ideas going forward
> > with this?
>
> Sorry, I've not really been following the purpose of the tree(1) patch
> and how it pertains to searching. Nonetheless, I don't really understand
> the attraction of tree(1). Yes, it gives pretty lines to show the
> directory hierarchy, but other than that, it mostly sounds like a
> hindrance. I'd just as soon use find(1). It's POSIX (so it'll probably
> work everywhere), and it's machine parseable. You can get a greppable
> lise using:
>
>   (cd ~/.password-store/ && find -name \*.gpg)
>
> (on top of which you can trivially build search functionality)
>
> And a tree-like structure (without the pretty lines) using:
>
>   (cd ~/.password-store/ && find *) | sort | sed 's|[^/]\+/| |g;s/\.gpg$//'
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Matthew Cengia
>
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