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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:50:40 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Some things never change
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> 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