topic Re: du command in Operating System - HP-UX

du command

Conrad J Wyrzykowski — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:07:38 GMT

Greetings,

I'm trying to retreive files and there sizes using du -a -k which works to well. It goes down the whole folder tree to the smallest file. Is there away to have it stop at the last folder and report the size at that point?

Thanks,
Conrad

Re: du command

Pete Randall — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:27:29 GMT

Have you tried the -x option?

Pete

Re: du command

James George_1 — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:27:31 GMT

Hi

Try this

# du -sk * | sort -n Or

# du -sk * | sort -rn

Rgds / James

Re: du command

Cem Tugrul — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:35:41 GMT

Conrad,
du -ks * |sort -n
would be solution for you...
Good Luck,

Re: du command

Conrad J Wyrzykowski — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:16:49 GMT

Great,

Pete's -x option is the best so far. I now need to find a way to determine if the very first level returned is a directory then to return the files inside it. I may need to stick with the -a option and then take the file into ACCESS or something and force it to group the files that I need. More thought required.

Thanks.

Re: du command

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:22:06 GMT

Hi Conrad,

This is what I use:

du -akx | sort -rn | more

This puts the grand total right up top.
Plus shows you the "hogs" up there as well.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: du command

Conrad J Wyrzykowski — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:43:58 GMT

Tkx Jeff,

I like this better. How would you sort the file so that it is done based on the path rather than the size?

Conrad

Re: du command

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:53:46 GMT

Hi Conrad:

To use Jeff's suggestion but sort the output using the filename (the second field), simply do:

# du -akx | sort -k2 | more

See the 'sort' manpages for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: du command

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:57:40 GMT

Well...you'd have to sort differently- here's a sort EX:

du -akx | sort -rn | sort -k 2,2 | more

This will sort second field - i.e. path & THEN the size within.
Flip those around & you'll get size then path.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: du command

Conrad J Wyrzykowski — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:31:40 GMT

Thanks all, I went with Jeff's script and the rest will have to be done manually.