[geeks] find - having a senior moment

[Brian Dunbar]

>>From: Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at liftport.com>
>>Date: 2008/01/14 Mon PM 02:37:42 CST
>>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: Re: [geeks] find - having a senior moment
>
>>> du (1) is your friend here.
>>>
>>> j
>>>
>>
>>It could be - but du (or so it seems to say in man) reports file sizes in
>>k.  I can use that but I'd really like the disk space in bytes.
>>
>>Why?  It makes the math easier in the rest of the script.
>
> du -b reports in bytes
>
> See: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?du
>

I am - it seems - using a broken (grin) version of du ..

# du -b *
du: illegal option -- b
usage: du [-a] [-d] [-h|-k] [-r] [-o|-s] [-H|-L] [file ...]
#

We should be using the gnu utilities but don't.  There is a long and
tedious story behind that choice.

Brian