On 09/01/2023 18:45, SCOTT FIELDS wrote:
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From: Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbradin.com>
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 12:39 PM
To: SCOTT FIELDS <scott.fie...@kyndryl.com>; coreutils@gnu.org
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.
>
> 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.
Fair enough.
Though that use case is unusual.
I.e. directories with multiple users.
Even then, since the invocation is per user,
you can use the `--total | tail -n1` option to
get a single usage for the user,
albeit not summarized per specified directory.
cheers,
Pádraig.
