-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Aaron Peterson on 12/6/2008 3:05 PM: > Ultimately, I find it annoying that more options are needed than this: > find "*want*" | du > For the utilities to work properly they would need to know their > context and I believe that everybody agrees that it's not the > utilities job to get that complicated. > > I'm wondering how hard it would be to have a new shell that would > use context to interpret the command like this: > find -iname "*want*" -type f -0 | du --files0-from -
Nothing stops you from writing a shell script that wraps your common command sequences in something shorter to type: $ cat mydu #!/bin/sh # Usage: mydu PATTERN # Determine the disk usage of all regular files located in `.' # or below, with a case-insensitive match to the shell glob PATTERN. find -iname "$1" -type f -print0 | du --files0-from - - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk7CA4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDYzwCgo4ThcUwfc+DHE5qpzMPJ9hWd FQYAniWf5rjDMBrVKGk0HNKe5lQto6NL =sLpS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
