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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:17:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D1A8F7D.34AD24C5@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1e338bf88fa75c556b45bd0811040fa@plan9.bell-labs.com>

"rob pike, esq." wrote:
> Whether you cp or tar, you must read the files from one tree and write
> them to another.

But with twin tars (y'all), there is encoding and decoding (aka
format translation) going on for the attribute info, which does
seem like a waste of cycles.

There is frequently, at least in my end of the universe, need for
directory hierarchy walking for a variety of purposes.  The old
Unix tools "find" and "xargs" aren't very satisfactory, but at
least they exist.  I guess "ls -R" would almost work as a file
tree walker (as input to some shell procedure), except for its
irregular output format and its apparent nonexistence under Plan 9.

Do you guys work mostly with flat file hierarchies or what?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-27  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-26 17:45 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-27  9:16 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-27  9:17 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2002-06-26 19:53   ` arisawa
2002-06-27 11:43   ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27 11:04     ` Sam
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-15  0:37 [9fans] Dumb question Dan Cross
2003-07-15  3:23 ` boyd, rounin
2002-07-05  9:43 [9fans] dumb question Geoff Collyer
2002-07-01 11:03 rog
2002-07-02  8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
     [not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-06-28 16:49 ` rob pike, esq.
2002-06-29  2:23   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-28 16:39 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 16:31 rog
2002-06-28 16:14 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 14:10 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 15:42 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-28 14:08 rog
2002-06-28  7:52 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 22:59 Geoff Collyer
2002-06-28  4:32 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 18:38 forsyth
2002-06-28  8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 17:07 rog
2002-06-27 17:07 forsyth
2002-06-27 16:33 ` Sam
2002-06-27 14:43 Richard Miller
2002-06-27 14:33 forsyth
2002-06-27 13:20 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-05  9:07 ` Maarit Maliniemi
2002-06-27 13:19 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-27 13:21 ` david presotto
2002-06-27 15:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 12:27 rog
2002-06-27 12:12 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 12:06 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 11:13 ` Sam
2002-06-27 11:15   ` Sam
2002-06-27 10:29 nigel
2002-06-27  9:44 Stephen Parker
2002-06-27  9:43 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27  9:36 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27  1:22 okamoto
2002-06-27  1:05 okamoto
2002-06-26 23:08 forsyth
     [not found] ` <171e27d5f2cfd12a9303117e58818e5b@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-06-26 18:27   ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 17:39     ` Sam
2002-06-27  9:17       ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-27  9:33         ` Ish Rattan
2002-06-27  9:59         ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 10:05           ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-27 10:21             ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 15:40           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 16:57             ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-28  8:45               ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-28  9:31               ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-28 14:30                 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-28 15:06                   ` Boyd Roberts
2002-07-01  9:46                   ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27 15:36       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 15:12         ` Sam
2002-06-28  8:44           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-26 22:07     ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-26 22:59       ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2002-06-27  0:03         ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-27  0:44           ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-27  9:17     ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27  9:48       ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-27 10:07         ` John Murdie
2002-06-27 15:40         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-26 19:04 rog
2002-06-26 19:00 Warrier, Sadanand (Sadanand)
2002-06-27  0:13 ` Steve Arons
2002-06-26 18:41 forsyth
2002-06-26 18:40 David Gordon Hogan
2002-06-26 17:53 rog
2002-06-26  8:55 Stephen Parker
2002-06-26 17:18 ` Andrew Stitt
     [not found] <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
2002-06-25 17:06 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-25 18:01   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-26  8:41   ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26  9:14     ` Nigel Roles
2002-06-26 17:41       ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 16:08         ` Ish Rattan
2002-06-25 16:48 Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26  8:45 ` arisawa
2002-06-26 17:36   ` Andrew Stitt

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