Great, thanks! On 18 Oct 2017 9:53 pm, "Bernhard Voelker" <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote:
> tag 28890 notabug > close 28890 > stop > > On 10/18/2017 02:12 PM, Gavin Holt wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to use cmd batch file to list the size of all directories > > in my roaming user profile - so I an clean it out. > > > > DU.exe works well and gives me the exact output I want - the sum of > > the size of the files in each directory EXCLUDING subdirectories. e.g. > > > > P:\MyPrograms\EDITORS\Scite>du -Ssb %CD% > > 2641767 P:\MyPrograms\EDITORS\Scite > > > > P:\MyPrograms\EDITORS\Scite\tools>du -Ssb %CD% > > 8834439 P:\MyPrograms\EDITORS\Scite\tools > > > > I would use a for loop to iterate over all the directories, but > > testing with a single directory shows this command to be painfully > > slow. > > (dir /AD /B /S %USERPROFILE%) > > > > Is there any way to optimize the DU function or an alternative you can > > suggest that gives the identical output. > > > > I did read the link below - but the output is not what I wanted. > > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30513287/faster-way- > to-get-folder-size-with-batch-script > > Given that you have 'du.exe' from Cygwin (so that you have the > latest gear), I'd go with a combination of 'find' to get directory names > and 'du' to print the sizes; I'd also use --threshold=SIZE to exclude > directories smaller than SIZE: > > $ find . -depth -type d -exec du -hxSt 10M '{}' + > > or with a pipe: > $ find . -depth -type d -print0 | du --files0-from=- -hxS --threshold=10M > > Finally, as you asked for Windows, I want to mention a very useful > graphical tool: "windirstat". > > As this is more a question how to use du(1) - and not a bug - I'm > marking this issue as such in our bug tracker. > > Have a nice day, > Berny > > >