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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:11:14 +0100
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From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Replacement for find
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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?

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