Re: fine-tuning du -h ?

[John Summerfield]

Josef Oswald wrote:
Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:33:06PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote:
   

Is there a way to let du -h only print the size of a directory? 
     

Sorry I was not clear here, I want to check more then _one_ directory,
at once:
like /home/oswald but du -sh returns a error that /home/oswald/pan/cache
is not readable ( something about input-output error. 

 

I don't want to worry you or anything, sounds like dud disk or dud data 
to me. In your position, I'd take myself off to the local computer shop 
and get a new disk drive soonest.

At worst, you might not actually need it, but you'll have a fine backup 
device.

du -sh /some_dir
It's in the manpage, oddly enough.
   

Sure it is :-)  But since du returns the above error it does not
finish. du -h /the_directory works but it prints then all files. of
course I could put the output into a file and then go trough that... 
 

Odds are if fails and you don't see the error because of all the 
extraneous noise.

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