Cool, thanks again! uriel
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote: >> P.S.: Silly question, why is du(1) not built by default in p9p? The >> code already there seems to work as far as I can tell.. > > It's a long story, dating back to when the standard mode of > operation was to put $PLAN9/bin ahead of the system binaries > in your $PATH. In that context it didn't make sense to include > tools like du, dd, and grep, because too many programs > expected to get the standard tool rather than the Plan 9 one. > > The 9 script made it easier to live with $PLAN9/bin at the > end of the $PATH, so now there's no harm in having those. > I've re-enabled dd and du. > > Russ > >
