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Only print terminal directories in "du"?
Is there a generalized solution for getting only the deepest directories? Counting slash characters won't work, because if I change to --max-depth=4, the deepest directories won't all have the same ...
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Get the total size of all files of a given extension
I'm trying to get the total size of all the JPEGs in a particular folder, but no amount of combinations of options while piping to du seems to make this work:
find -type f -iname "*.jpg" | du -sch
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Can I give a script elevated file access and run it from my current user?
I have a script (I call it dusort.sh) I use to gauge which files are taking up the most space on my drive in a given folder. It essentially boils down to this:
#!/bin/bash
du --all --human-readable -...
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Why does du -b show a different result than stat?
I've recently ran into this problem:
find /tmp/tmp33hn25wv -type f -exec stat --format='%s' {} + | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'
10420224
du -bs /tmp/tmp33hn25wv
12198004 /tmp/tmp33hn25wv
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Why is `du` on WSL acting giving a directory size greater than machine memory?
I ran into my question while trying to find out which files on my computer are taking up the most space. Here's the information on the total machine memory, found from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)...
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Unexpected behavior with -h flag passed to du
As long as I've been living in *nix world I've lived under the assumption that when a command accepted a -h flag the only thing I was changing was effectively formatting of a print statement. I don't ...
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Does `du /` list every single file on a system? [closed]
Does du / list every single file?
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Is there a better way?
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du -sh : I don't get why these two results are different
I need to know the size of a folder and some of its sub folders. So I'm trying to use the du command.
I cd into the right directory and then try (in bash) :
[xxx@yyy TEST]$ du -sh .
4.1G .
[xxx@...
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'Du' command does not list all files
I receive different number of files with du -h and find:
loom@loom-desktop$ du -h ~/storage/Apps/*/trunk/test/*.cpp | wc -l
35
loom@loom-desktop$ find ~/storage/Apps/ -path */trunk/test/*.cpp | wc -l
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"du -h" with more decimal places
I'm working on a little util tool written in bash that gives me some information about a game server on Linux. For that reason I need a possibility to display the size of the file contents.
I'm doing ...
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Display each sub-directory size in a list format using one line command in Bash?
I want to get a list of the directories and their sizes in a list format like how you get when you do a ls -l.
The thing is that is there a one line command that can do this? I see others have long ...
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How do I quickly calculate the size of a directory?
I want to calculate the size of my home directory, which has a lot of sub directories.
It takes about 40 seconds to run du.
Is there a quicker way?
$ time du -sh
5.0G .
real 0m39.676s
user ...
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what is faster, du or stat?
Which goes faster on Linux/Unix?
du -b file.dat
or:
stat -c %s file.dat
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How do I find out which file type is taking up the most space?
I have a zillion little files in a complex folder hierarchy; these are taking up too much space (ie. terabytes). I'd like to find out which file type (ie., .pdf etc) is taking up all the room so that ...
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