Have you read the man page for du? You can get everything you want just from
that one little command.
Good luck,
Steven
On Friday 20 July 2001 12:56 pm, Oliver Ob wrote:
> Hi mates,
>
> this is about a routine I would like to call "DIRLEN", it should
> output me the EXACT length and amount of files in the specified
> dir and its sub-dirs.
>
> du -hs * has not brought me much further. maybe some bash expert
> has an idea how to maybe pipe "ls" to some filter.
>
> the problem with du -hs * is that du gives me not the length
> but THE USAGE of that very file on disk (which may of course
> vary from fs to fs)
>
> Now, how can I get what I want... I had that command for DOS6.xx
> and its output was something like:
>
> Total length of Directory "/text" with sub-dirs:
> 47 Files 301302 bytes
> 9 Files 173 bytes
> 81 Files 884194 bytes
>
> A "grand total" would be TOP of that iceberg...
>
> Any ideas? Come on...
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