From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-version: 1.0 (1.0) From: Brantley Coile In-reply-to: <20150930080111.F04E81103EBE@mac.korb> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 06:31:41 -0400 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: References: <20150930080111.F04E81103EBE@mac.korb> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Replacement for find Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6d9fca5a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 a= esthetic 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 2= 5 years and find the du solution quite attractive. I subscribe to the ideas i= n "Cat -v considered harmful" paper by Pike and prefer to build commands out= of a smaller number of primitives.=20 http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf=20 By the way, if your using p9p you already have find(1) on the system on whic= h you're hosting the acme execution environment.=20 Sent from my iPad > On Sep 30, 2015, at 4:01 AM, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: >=20 > Thanks for your answers! > But I consider it ugly, to ask for the disk usage if you just want to > recursively list all files.