Re: du -s excluding size from directory entries?

[Aaron Davies]

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 <address@hidden> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Pádraig.
>



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Aaron Davies
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