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Old 08-08-2010
I am trying to get the total size of a folder?
I am trying to get the total size of the folder using the below command

but its not working. any ideas?


Code:
du -bc <foldername>/|grep total|tr -s " "|cut -d" " -f1

the output i am getting is

78996 total

but i just want it to be as

78996

please help
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 08-08-2010 at 06:00 PM..
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Old 08-08-2010
One way:

Code:
du -bc directory  | awk ' /total/ { print $1 }'

Your command may be failing as the du command might be separating the total token from the value with tabs rather than spaces.
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Old 08-08-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by classic
I am trying to get the total size of the folder using the below command

but its not working. any ideas?


Code:
du -bc <foldername>/|grep total|tr -s " "|cut -d" " -f1

the output i am getting is

78996 total

but i just want it to be as

78996

please help
This should work
Code:
 du -bc <folder_name>| grep total | cut -f1

I think the problem with ur code was tr -s " " where u r squeezing space but actually its a tab. so tr is not making any difference. In my code, since tab is the default delimiter for cut, it works.
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Old 08-08-2010
Code:
du -bc /tmp | tail -1|cut -f1

 
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