Re: [TCLUG:1777] directory sizes

[Andrew McCulloh <mcculloh@2z.net>]

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu> writes:

    >> you can use -s to create summery's.

    Ben> If I type 'du -s *' I get what I want except it includes all
    Ben> the files in the directory I'm in when I run du. Is there a
    Ben> way (I didn't see this in the man page) to tell it to ignore
    Ben> files in the current directory and just count file under the
    Ben> directories?

    Ben> Thanks,

    Ben> Ben

This is the problem I mentioned with du. It can do some things well
but others are very complicated. The trick is to pass du the correct
file list. To whit we only want to pass it a list of directories
looking in "Unix power tools" we find the answer: ls -d */.

So now you can say

	du -s `ls -d */.`

Andrew