On 04/13/2013 08:22 AM, Aaron Davies wrote: > is there an easy way to `du -s' a tree and ignore the size of the directories > themselves? > > if, e.g., i have one deep directory tree with a long history of > modifications, and another directory tree created from a `cp -a' of the > first, their `du -sb' results are likely to be somewhat different. > > i can get this result with something like `find -not -type d -print0|xargs > -r0 stat -c %s|paste -sd+|bc', but a simpler solution would be nice.
How about: find -not -type d -print0 | du -hc --files0-from=- | tail -n1 That deals with hard links in the set too. Thanks, Pádraig.
