Hey. When I want to count the nominal sizes of the (usually regular) files in a directory I do something like:
du --apparent-size --block-size=1 This however also counts in the sizes of the directories themselves (and I guess also of symlinks, etc.). The "problem" with that is in particular, that for the exact same dir/file structure, the results differ e.g. between ext4 and btrfs, because of different sizes for the directories (themselves). It would be nice if there was a option that allowed to select which file types are counted. Yes I know that one can do something like: find . -type f -print0 | du --apparent-size -l -c -s --block-size=1 --files0-from=- | tail -n But that's rather cumbersome... also I cannot do something like du path1 path2 path3 and get totals for each and a grand summary. And even if I make an shell alias out of this, I cannot do bash completion on it. Thanks, Chris.
