Re: [9fans] du and find

["Mathieu Lonjaret" <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com>]

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No idea, probably none.

that would not be the interesting point, if any.  it's just that the
tool is already there and (should be) simpler to use than piping
various commands around, as they illustrate below.

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From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] du and find
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 05:18:56 -0700
Message-ID: <t2nfe41879c1005030518l8ea8cbd1u78d15fe07c54006@mail.gmail.com>

>From the website:

"ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage
of the power of Perl's regular expressions."

Forgive my ignorance and irrelevance to this topic,
but what are the advantages of Perl's regular
expressions, over the implementation we have
currently in Plan 9?


Thanks,
ak

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Mathieu Lonjaret
<mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just because reviving old threads is fun...
> I've just found out about this:
>
> http://betterthangrep.com/
>
> it does not seem to work out of the box (expecting some unix paths), but
> since there's a perl port and that thing is supposed to be more or
> less self contained (for the standalone version), maybe it's not too
> much work for someone interested enough.
>
> Cheers,
> Mathieu
>
>
>