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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] find(1) revisited.
Date: Fri,  1 Nov 2002 12:53:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC26B41.7080905@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6216a59ca1c9f5ca6089a591aa990d30@collyer.net>

Geoff Collyer wrote:

>I'm just curious: what sorts of things did you do with find that you
>find impossible or too awkward to do with du?
>
I guess, in the old days, find made it quicker, but now we don't care,
'cos du | grep is pretty quick.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-01 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-01  0:47 Geoff Collyer
2002-11-01  2:09 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-01 11:53 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-04  8:54 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-11-01 17:37 Russ Cox
2002-11-01 17:31 a
2002-10-31 21:20 Dan Cross
2002-10-31 21:58 ` Dan Cross
2002-11-01 12:01 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-11-01 19:14   ` Dan Cross

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