* Re: [9fans] Some things never change
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@ 2012-02-24 0:43 ` erik quanstrom
2012-02-24 0:49 ` Jack Johnson
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2012-02-24 0:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: john, 9fans
On Thu Feb 23 19:35:56 EST 2012, john@jfloren.net wrote:
> While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans
> archive and noticed something:
>
> The 13th message ever sent to 9fans
> (http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about "find".
>
> Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993
pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it "du".
- erik
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2012-02-24 0:43 ` [9fans] Some things never change erik quanstrom
@ 2012-02-24 0:49 ` Jack Johnson
2012-02-24 16:45 ` David Leimbach
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From: Jack Johnson @ 2012-02-24 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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
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2012-02-24 0:49 ` Jack Johnson
@ 2012-02-24 16:45 ` David Leimbach
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From: David Leimbach @ 2012-02-24 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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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.
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* Re: [9fans] Some things never change
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@ 2012-02-24 16:50 ` erik quanstrom
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From: erik quanstrom @ 2012-02-24 16:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: leimy2k, 9fans
> 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
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* [9fans] Some things never change
@ 2012-02-24 0:34 John Floren
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From: John Floren @ 2012-02-24 0:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans
archive and noticed something:
The 13th message ever sent to 9fans
(http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about "find".
Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993
John
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