Re: [9fans] Some things never change
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Jack Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom
> > wrote:
> > > pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it "du".
> >
> > It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it
> > that way on Linux.
> >
> > -Jack
> >
> > As do I. People often look at me funny for doing it that way. In fact, I
> suspect I use a lot more "small tools" on pipes than people not exposed to
> Plan 9.
the silly twist on this story, is i wrote a find
(http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/1/find)
mostly because i was sick of typing du | awk '{print $2}',
which still has trouble if $2 needs rc quoting.
- erik
Re: [9fans] Some things never change
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Jack Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom > wrote: > > pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it "du". > > It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it > that way on Linux. > > -Jack > > As do I. People often look at me funny for doing it that way. In fact, I suspect I use a lot more "small tools" on pipes than people not exposed to Plan 9.
Re: [9fans] Some things never change
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it "du". It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it that way on Linux. -Jack
Re: [9fans] Some things never change
On Thu Feb 23 19:35:56 EST 2012, j...@jfloren.net wrote: > While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans > archive and noticed something: > > The 13th message ever sent to 9fans > (http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about "find". > > Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993 pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it "du". - erik
