Post #1255724
2026-04-17 07:41 UTC
lot to love about #netbsd and missing surprisingly little. real annoying things:
find requires a path. "find ." instead of "find", i'm getting it wrong every time.
no "sort -h". how do people sort "du -sh" output? are they content with seeing their file is 173666 blocks big?
anybody knows if patches for these would've been accepted or if they'd be shunned off as gnu-isms?
Replies (6)
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@jmcneill@mstdn.ca 2026-04-17 12:20
@lkundrak@metalhead.club I didn’t know “sort -h” was a thing! I always use “du -sk”
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@lkundrak@metalhead.club 2026-04-17 07:45
there are things that are obviously very linuxy that i also miss, so i'm not their normal target audience probably: * systemd * udev * sysfs * lsblk * iproute, NetworkManager
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@poni@ak.kawen.space 2026-04-17 07:44
@lkundrak nah, you just replace it with the "modern" rust toolkit now
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 2026-04-17 07:52
@lkundrak i'm p sure gnu find works there
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@mathieu@fosstodon.org 2026-04-17 07:58
@lkundrak Haha I come from the BSD, and TIL that you can omit the path in gnu find xD.
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@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-19 21:01
@lkundrak Looks like find without an argument is violating some standard, and maybe we don't want to encourage people to write sloppy shell scripts. sort -h sounds reasonable, though.