> On 5 January 2014 12:27, Conor Williams <conor.willi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> term%9fs sources >> term% cd /n/sources/contrib >> term% du -a . | grep chess > > Thanks, this is possibly a way, but, at least in my case, this takes ages... > (Say it can run for >45 mins; maybe much more; I do not know the true > reason why, > but I intuitively suspect the protocol.) > Therefore I asked for a more specific pointer. > Also, generally, there should be a quicker way. > > Ruda
It runs much faster if you search in the lsr index file: % 9fs sources % cd /n/sources % time grep chess lsr ./contrib/steve/root/sys/src/cmd/mkmk/9port/gnu/chess 755 1229510622 697 ./plan9/sys/src/cmd/gs/examples/chess.ps 664 1137452689 61791 0.58u 0.18s 315.60r grep chess lsr So here are results I found ^^^ stevie