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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:41:43 -0500
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Subject: [9fans] du and find
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>> ; du -a | awk '-F\t' '{print $2}' -
>
>All this nonsense because the dogmatists refuse to accept
>/n/sources/contrib/cross/walk.c into the distribution.

find and walk are about the same program.  my version of
find started with andrey's.  his find page (http://mirtchovski.com/p9/find/)
is dated 31-jul-2004, predating the given walk.c by ~18 months,
though i don't know which was written first.

the reason i started fiddling with find was to see if it couldn't
go a bit faster than du. (it did.)

my cannonical examples of its use are
	find | grep whereisthatfile
and
	grep whereisthatfunction `{find /sys/src|grep '\.[chlsy]$'}

i don't think it's that important that it absolutely needs to
be in the distribution; it's a convience.

what seems more important to me is a way to unlimit the size
of argv.  otherwise we'll need to go down the hideous xargs path.
(apoligizes to hideous functions everywhere for the slur.)

- erik