total size of files under a directory

[Swain]

is there any command for getting size of all the files in a directory or its subdirectories?
e.g. all the files list with their size that exist in MUM$DKA400:[USERS]

[Karl Rohwedder]

What is wrong with
DIREC /SIZE[=all][/Total][/GRAND]

regards Kalle

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] or its subdirectories [...]

> DIREC /SIZE[=all][/Total][/GRAND]

MUM$DKA400:[USERS...]

[Jan van den Ende]

Amaresh,

Steven gave the answer that is usually correct.
However, there is one detail that needs to be checked.
_IF_ any of the directories has an alias, _THEN_ all of it and its subdirectories are counted again (and again for multiple aliasses).

Now, your syntax of MUM$DKA400:[USERS] seems to make that unlikely, as it SUGGESTS that the nodename is MUM and the device is the one that carries the PHYSICAL identification of DKA400, but I have several times into situations where the application device name (here "MUM$DKA400:" ) is a redefinition of SYS$SYSROOT (a practise I most strongly DISAPPROVE of, but you find what you find...) and THEN my first paragraph applies.

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Swain]

Thanks a lot for the early response.
One more query: Could I sort the output by size of files?

[Hoff]

>Could I sort the output by size of files?

Not directly; not with the base system.

With the default OpenVMS tools you can select (rather than sort) by a specified size. DIRECTORY /SELECT = SIZE = MINIMUM = value is probably the most useful of these.

There are add-on tools which can provide various sort orders for directory listings, or you can combine existing tools akin to the following (by date) example:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_7290.html

It can also be feasible to use gnv or other such, and use the bash shell (which allows you to do this sort of thing) as an alternative to DCL.

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Amaresh,


One more query: Could I sort the output by size of files?


You could use QDSB. Works (almost) like DIRECTORY. To be downloaded from:

http://www.quadratrix.be/qdsb.html

Regards,
Kris (aka Qkcl)

[John Travell]

Within its limits the following command may be helpful, clearly you can create your own permutation...
$ pipe dir/col=1/wid=file=40/size | sort sys$pipe /key=(pos:40,siz:9) sys$output

JT: