Re: du -s excluding size from directory entries?

[Aaron Davies]

> On Jan 24, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/24/2014 08:41 PM, Aaron Davies wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Does the above not suffice?
> If it does it's probably better than adding extra options?

Well, it's not terrible, and it does what I asked for, but it's not exactly 
easy to type (or remember). With my patch, that turns into `du -sbp` .

(Insert joke about GNU program options here.)