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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:59:52 -1000
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] du and find
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> It is suggested to use
>    du -a | awk '{print $2}'
> instead of find. But what if filename contains spaces? For example if
> file is named "foo bar" then awk will output "foo" only.

What about

    du -a | sed 's/^[0-9]*<tab>//g'

no loss on spaces in filenames.
no loss on tabs in filenames.

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com