> On Jan 24, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > >> On 01/24/2014 08:41 PM, Aaron Davies wrote: >> would people be interested in a patch implementing this? it's about a >> dozen lines to add (~60 line patch). >> >>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: >>>> 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. > > Does the above not suffice? > If it does it's probably better than adding extra options?
Well, it's not terrible, and it does what I asked for, but it's not exactly easy to type (or remember). With my patch, that turns into `du -sbp` . (Insert joke about GNU program options here.)
