Somewhat late to the party, but I use the following in my profile:
fn find {du -a $* |awk '{print $2}'}
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/stallion/profile
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:20 AM, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed Sep 30 01:12:36 PDT 2015, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On 30 September 2015 at 09:01, Wolfgang Helbig <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > But I consider it ugly, to ask for the disk usage if you just want to
>> > recursively list all files.
>> >
>>
>> It probably is not ideal, even when the circumlocution is hidden in a
>> script.
>> Perhaps find's syntax and conventions could be improved, though?
>
> 9atom has a relative of andrey's find. it takes very few options.
> the -d and -D options are not easily duplicated with du.
>
> ; man find
>
> FIND(1) FIND(1)
>
> NAME
> find - recursively list files.
>
> SYNOPSIS
> find [ -1Ddfq ] dir ...
>
> DESCRIPTION
> List each argument. If the argument is a directory recur-
> sively list it's contents. The default is to list the cur-
> rent directory. Specifying -d prints only directories, -D
> prints only files, -f supresses warnings, while -q supresses
> quoting the output for rc(1). With -1, mount points will not
> be traversed.
>
> SOURCE
> /sys/src/cmd/find.c
>
> SEE ALSO
> du(1)
>
> BUGS
> Feeping creaturism.
>
>
> - erik
>
