Re: [9fans] Replacement for find

[Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>]

Somewhat late to the party, but I use the following in my profile:

fn find {du -a $* |awk '{print $2}'}

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/stallion/profile

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:20 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Wed Sep 30 01:12:36 PDT 2015, charles.forsyth@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On 30 September 2015 at 09:01, Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@mailbox.org> wrote:
>>
>> > But I consider it ugly, to ask for the disk usage if you just want to
>> > recursively list all files.
>> >
>>
>> It probably is not ideal, even when the circumlocution is hidden in a
>> script.
>> Perhaps find's syntax and conventions could be improved, though?
>
> 9atom has a relative of andrey's find.  it takes very few options.
> the -d and -D options are not easily duplicated with du.
>
> ; man find
>
>      FIND(1)                                                   FIND(1)
>
>      NAME
>           find - recursively list files.
>
>      SYNOPSIS
>           find [ -1Ddfq ] dir ...
>
>      DESCRIPTION
>           List each argument.  If the argument is a directory recur-
>           sively list it's contents.  The default is to list the cur-
>           rent directory.  Specifying -d prints only directories, -D
>           prints only files, -f supresses warnings, while -q supresses
>           quoting the output for rc(1). With -1, mount points will not
>           be traversed.
>
>      SOURCE
>           /sys/src/cmd/find.c
>
>      SEE ALSO
>           du(1)
>
>      BUGS
>           Feeping creaturism.
>
>
> - erik
>