From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:04:11 -0400
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> Hi,
>
> > I guess "ls -R" would almost work as a file tree walker (as input to
> > some shell procedure), except for its irregular output format and its
> > apparent nonexistence under Plan 9.
>
> 9ers do it with du, don't they?

Indeed.  I use du on linux systems now as well.  It's simple, easy to
remember, and doesn't really take all that long.  Friends laugh and
repeatedly ask, "why don't you use slocate?"  Then, while they're waiting
ten minutes for slocate -u to update its database because they can't
find a file, I've long since gone back to work.

Simplicity is good.  Human beings aren't *that* different from
machines.  The more store you use maintaining lists of flags to
seldom run programs the less you can use for really complex tasks.
What's so hard to grasp here?  (sorry, intentionally catty)

;)

Cheers,

Sam