[9fans] Some things never change

[9fans] Some things never change

[John Floren]

While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans
archive and noticed something:

The 13th message ever sent to 9fans
(http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about "find".

Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993


John

Re: [9fans] Some things never change

[erik quanstrom]

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom
> > <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> > > pfft.  we've always had find.  we've just called it "du".
> >
> > It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it
> > that way on Linux.
> >
> > -Jack
> >
> > As do I.  People often look at me funny for doing it that way.  In fact, I
> suspect I use a lot more "small tools" on pipes than people not exposed to
> Plan 9.

the silly twist on this story, is i wrote a find
(http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/1/find)
mostly because i was sick of typing du | awk '{print $2}',
which still has trouble if $2 needs rc quoting.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Some things never change

[David Leimbach]

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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom
> <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> > pfft.  we've always had find.  we've just called it "du".
>
> It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it
> that way on Linux.
>
> -Jack
>
> As do I.  People often look at me funny for doing it that way.  In fact, I
suspect I use a lot more "small tools" on pipes than people not exposed to
Plan 9.

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Re: [9fans] Some things never change

[Jack Johnson]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> pfft.  we've always had find.  we've just called it "du".

It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it
that way on Linux.

-Jack

Re: [9fans] Some things never change

[erik quanstrom]

On Thu Feb 23 19:35:56 EST 2012, john@jfloren.net wrote:
> While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans
> archive and noticed something:
>
> The 13th message ever sent to 9fans
> (http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about "find".
>
> Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993

pfft.  we've always had find.  we've just called it "du".

- erik