Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I am on solaris 9 (KSH) and I am on trouble while using a command line in a script to get the directory size of a directory.

Code:

/usr/bin/du -sk /data/_restit
typeset -i rep_size=` /usr/bin/du -sk /data/_restit |cut -d"/" -f1 `
echo "${rep_size}"

I did try different way to write the command line get the size each time the size given is not the real size like if I do from the shell :

Code:

du -sk /data/_restit

Thanks for your help

How about:

Code:

du -sk /data/_restit | cut -f1

Hello Scrutinizer,

This will not work better, I already try !

Is there a way to get the directory size in another way of using

Code:

du

?

Thanks

What was your code and output did you get?

Hello CarloM,

It seems that the size given on the script is the size of one of the subdirectory. The only way to solved my problem was to add

Code:

cd

to reset the path were stop the script.Strange isn't it !

The script it's just dowloading files and put them in different directories then ends by showing the size of the directory that contain all sub directories with files inside.

It might be strange if I understood what you'd written .

Please paste the output you're actually getting from du -sk /data/_restit.

Is the number you want the total size (i.e. recursively, including sub-directories), or something else?

Here is the output from the shell :

32320

Here is the output given from the script :

2198

By using

Code:

cd

to reset the curent path used by the script to put the last file the problem is solved, but I am not completly satisfied.

Problem solved for now, thanks