Re: du enhancement request

[Rafal Maszkowski]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:20:09PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Rafal Maszkowski on 10/8/2008 3:16 PM:
> > It happens to me that I need to count files in directories. du is a
> > command which woud fit best to such task if it had an option "count
> > number of files instead of number of bytes". It could be -i as in df -i.
> Better than adding an extension that won't be widely available, how about
> using an existing command?  For example:
> find . | wc -l
> is a close approximation and available on any POSIX system (it mishandles
> files with embedded newlines in the name).  If you use GNU findutils, you
> can use the more accurate:
> find -printf - | wc -c

Sure, I do use commands like ls|wc -l but sometimes I would like to look
into several directories at once, e.g.:

address@hidden:/pub/Linux/aurora/development,1> du -sch *
13G     source
17G     sparc
12G     sparc64
42G     total

address@hidden:/pub/Linux/aurora/development,1> du -sic *
   6024   source
  12982   sparc
  12501   sparc64
  31507   total

address@hidden:/pub/Linux/aurora/development,0> du -ic *
      8   source/SRPMS/repodata
   6023   source/SRPMS
   6024   source
     10   sparc/os/repodata
   9558   sparc/os/Packages
   9569   sparc/os
      8   sparc/debug/repodata
   3412   sparc/debug
  12982   sparc
     10   sparc64/os/repodata
   9126   sparc64/os/Packages
   9137   sparc64/os
      8   sparc64/debug/repodata
   3363   sparc64/debug
  12501   sparc64
  81739   total

It could be a separate command but I like the du options like -s, -c and
-h which would be usefull with this file-counting -i too.

R.
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