On 12/22/20 11:02 PM, Noam Yizraeli wrote: > I would like to add an option to view du output from du -sh for a certain > directory with also including hidden files and dirs.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean, and you didn't provide an example. 'du' already includes the count for "hidden" files. My guess is that you mean a call like: $ du -sh * The point is that 'du' only processes the entries explicitly passed to it. And it doesn't do the expansion of '*' itself; in fact, it doesn't see the '*' at all. Instead, the calling shell does the expansion. There's nothing we can do about in 'du'. Example: $ ls -alog total 956 drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 Jan 11 18:28 . drwxrwxrwt 30 663552 Jan 11 18:27 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 1235 Aug 14 2018 .profile drwx------ 2 4096 Aug 11 22:45 .ssh drwxr-x--- 16 4096 Dec 18 19:07 dir1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 291352 Jan 11 18:28 file1 $ du -sh * 63M dir1 288K file1 To see how the shell calls 'du', you could use the 'echo' command in front of it: $ echo du -sh * du -sh dir1 file1 So 'du' is called with those 2 file names only, but not the hidden ones. This is because the shell globbing doesn't expand '*' to hidden files per default. E.g. in 'bash' as the calling shell, you could change this by the 'dotglob' option via `shopt -s dotglob`. $ shopt -s dotglob $ echo du -sh * du -sh .profile .ssh dir1 file1 Is that what you mean? Have a nice day, Berny
