One way:
@Pikk45:
Your solution is relying on the size shown by the ls -l output which actually is the block size for a directory. The size of directory should be determined by the total accumulated size of all files present in the directory which du command does.
Guru.
Cool!! You are the GURU
But when you execute the command of yours, won't it take the present directory that is "." into account as well? <whisper: Got you on this one >
Will any body help me by writing a script in unix to the find out the size of the Main folder which has some 5 to 6 subfolders which in turn has some file in each of these subfolders
regards
victorvvk (2 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to find the size of a folder. When I run the command
du -k
It is going through all the sub-folder and files and taking really much time.
Is there any command to get the complete directory size without showing the sub-folder and file size.
Appreciate your response.
... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I have a big folder in a linux server that contains dozen of big files (total folder size ~ 50 GB)
I have a couple of files of 2.5 GB and some others from 100 MB to 1 GB. (that said it's obvious that it's impossible having two 2.5 GB files in one dvd)
The purpose is to... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need to move 1000s of files from one folder to another.
Actually there are 100K+ files.
Source dir : source1
Target dir : target1
Now if try cp or mv commands I am getting an error message : Argument List too long.
I tried to do it by the time the files are created in the source... (6 Replies)
I am trying to get the total size of the folder using the below command
but its not working. any ideas?
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 (3 Replies)
Hi Forum,
I need to know the size of some user home folders.
I've exported an account list from an Active Directory and wrote it into a file like:
user_1
user_2
user...
user_n
and tried "du -sh < filename", which doesn't work. Get no results.
I don't need the size of all home... (3 Replies)
I am using du -h --max-depth=2 to get list of folders by size upto 2 levels down. Problem is I am not able to sort them in max folder size.
Normally this can be achieved by using du -k | sort -nr * but I can't use it here since it conflicts (the -s argument) with the --max-depth=2 argument.
... (1 Reply)
can any one help me with a unix command to find out the size of each directory for files placed between 2 dates i.e., date1 & date 2? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Codesearcher
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)