On 01/25/2014 04:25 AM, Aaron Davies wrote: >> On Jan 24, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: >> >>> On 01/24/2014 08:41 PM, Aaron Davies wrote: >>> would people be interested in a patch implementing this? it's about a >>> dozen lines to add (~60 line patch). >>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: >>>>> On 04/13/2013 08:22 AM, Aaron Davies wrote: >>>>> is there an easy way to `du -s' a tree and ignore the size of the >>>>> directories themselves? >>>>> >>>>> if, e.g., i have one deep directory tree with a long history of >>>>> modifications, and another directory tree created from a `cp -a' of the >>>>> first, their `du -sb' results are likely to be somewhat different. >>>>> >>>>> i can get this result with something like `find -not -type d >>>>> -print0|xargs -r0 stat -c %s|paste -sd+|bc', but a simpler solution would >>>>> be nice. >>>> >>>> How about: >>>> >>>> find -not -type d -print0 | du -hc --files0-from=- | tail -n1 >>>> >>>> That deals with hard links in the set too. >> >> Does the above not suffice? >> If it does it's probably better than adding extra options? > > Well, it's not terrible, and it does what I asked for, but it's not exactly > easy to type (or remember). With my patch, that turns into `du -sbp` . > > (Insert joke about GNU program options here.) >
In that case I'd be leaning towards this functionality being esoteric enough that the proposed existing solution suffices. thanks, Pádraig.
