The problem is that doesn't provide you a summary, since it gives you usage for each file.
And sorry, I didn't include that as a use case, including '-s' option. -----Original Message----- From: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Pádraig Brady Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 12:39 PM To: SCOTT FIELDS <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Feature Request: 'du' command allow filter by user name On 09/01/2023 16:12, SCOTT FIELDS wrote: > Though not incredibly difficult to script, it would be useful to have 'du' > allow a filter by 'user'. > > AKA, > > 'du -user <user> <path>' to show only the files and usage for the specified > user. du isn't special in its filtering requirements here, and we can pipe robustly from the standard file filter like: find -type f -user $USER -print0 | du --files0-from=- So I don't think this would be appropriate to add to du. cheers, Pádraig
