[geeks] find - having a senior moment

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Mon Jan 14 15:00:36 CST 2008


>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

Lionel



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