From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200211010209.gA129ci07736@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] find(1) revisited. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:47:33 PST." <6216a59ca1c9f5ca6089a591aa990d30@collyer.net> From: Dan Cross Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:09:38 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 13376d6a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It was the longer permutations; mainly what I missed was finding files owned by certain people (for instance, what do I own in /sys/src?). Looking for files with certain permissions is also useful (what's world writable?). That sort of stuff. Also, I kind of wanted to be able to limit the depth of a search, and du seemed inappropriate for that. - Dan C.