[9fans] Some things never change

[John Floren]

While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans
archive and noticed something:

The 13th message ever sent to 9fans
(http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about "find".

Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993


John

[erik quanstrom]

Post by John Floren
While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans
The 13th message ever sent to 9fans
(http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about "find".
Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993

pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it "du".

- erik

[Jack Johnson]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom

pfft.  we've always had find.  we've just called it "du".

It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it
that way on Linux.

-Jack

[erik quanstrom]

Post by Jack Johnson
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom

Post by erik quanstrom
pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it "du".

It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it
that way on Linux.
-Jack
As do I. People often look at me funny for doing it that way. In fact, I

suspect I use a lot more "small tools" on pipes than people not exposed to
Plan 9.

the silly twist on this story, is i wrote a find
(http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/1/find)
mostly because i was sick of typing du | awk '{print $2}',
which still has trouble if $2 needs rc quoting.

- erik

[David Leimbach]

Post by Jack Johnson
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom

Post by erik quanstrom
pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it "du".

It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it
that way on Linux.
-Jack
As do I. People often look at me funny for doing it that way. In fact, I

suspect I use a lot more "small tools" on pipes than people not exposed to
Plan 9.