Aaron Peterson wrote: > Hi, > A feature request for du, a way to sum from a list of files without > doing tr \n \0
Supporting --files-from would be less general. Is `tr '\n' '\0'` that onerous? > I had to sort some files and and needed to know how large the group of > files that I had found were. > > I spend many hours trying to figure this out / and searching for solution. > It turns out that the \0 delimited list requirement was very painful. > I wish I could cat the output of find into du and get the total find -type f -print0 | du -c --files0-from=- | tail -n1 Having reviewed the docs I noticed that the most common case of specifying '-' (stdin) to the --files0-from option is not mentioned. So I just pushed this change to address that: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=00b5a2db33cddadf641ae2f01534514314d7e817 I also did a non user visible change to the info docs while I was at it to standardize on using lower-case @var{file}: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=1ce9d86c308d7daa6271a2e87629984b153ee9da > # wc could not be used to count NUL-separated items > # (another more complex program would be needed) tr -d '\n' | tr '\0' ''\n' | wc -l > $ xargs -n1 -d \\n --arg-file=files.list archive > # if the list is very long > # here files0.list could be used xargs -0 ... Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
