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From: Brantley Coile <brantleycoile@me.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Replacement for find
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 06:31:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E469CA33-E9B8-4E85-9C9B-0B0A4780E78D@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150930080111.F04E81103EBE@mac.korb>

It is indeed a matter of taste and aesthetics. One reason I prefer Plan 9 is the Bell Labs aesthetics, as opposed to the so called "complete" solution aesthetic of other design philosophies which are slaves to some orthogonality or other, is the small is beautiful aesthetic. I've been using Plan 9 for 25 years and find the du solution quite attractive. I subscribe to the ideas in "Cat -v considered harmful" paper by Pike and prefer to build commands out of a smaller number of primitives. 

http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf 

By the way, if your using p9p you already have find(1) on the system on which you're hosting the acme execution environment. 

Sent from my iPad

> On Sep 30, 2015, at 4:01 AM, Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@mailbox.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your answers!
> But I consider it ugly, to ask for the disk usage if you just want to
> recursively list all files.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30  8:01 Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30  8:09 ` lucio
2015-09-30  8:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-09-30  8:23   ` hiro
2015-09-30  8:27     ` lucio
2015-09-30 10:34       ` hiro
2015-09-30  9:33     ` Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30  9:58       ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-09-30 10:41         ` Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30 10:45           ` hiro
2015-09-30 10:07       ` Steve Simon
2015-09-30 10:55         ` Mark van Atten
2015-09-30 11:25           ` Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30 13:20   ` erik quanstrom
2015-09-30 14:32     ` arnold
2015-10-01  0:06       ` sl
2015-09-30 14:57     ` Steven Stallion
2015-09-30 10:31 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-30  6:26 Wolfgang Helbig
2015-09-30  6:39 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-09-30  6:54 ` Mark van Atten
2015-09-30  7:39   ` hiro

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