> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Jack Johnson <knapj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom > > <quans...@labs.coraid.com> 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
