From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DC26B41.7080905@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] find(1) revisited. References: <6216a59ca1c9f5ca6089a591aa990d30@collyer.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:53:37 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 137d6f54-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.