From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: leimy2k@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Some things never change
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:50:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24f2d9167df8a8efb6ff036bc4b97b6c@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJ04x6wLSixMcE6y7cfYwhp5QtUasm9jnLzGN6Y=YbyQe4AEg@mail.gmail.c>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom
> > <quanstro@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-24 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-02-24 0:43 ` erik quanstrom
2012-02-24 0:49 ` Jack Johnson
2012-02-24 16:45 ` David Leimbach
[not found] ` <CAJJ04x6wLSixMcE6y7cfYwhp5QtUasm9jnLzGN6Y=YbyQe4AEg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-02-24 16:50 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-02-24 0:34 John Floren
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