Re: du --files-from feature request

[Eric Blake]

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According to Aaron Peterson on 12/6/2008 3:05 PM:
> Ultimately, I find it annoying that more options are needed than this:
>    find "*want*" | du
> For the utilities to work properly they would need to know their
> context and I believe that everybody agrees that it's not the
> utilities job to get that complicated.
> 
> I'm wondering how hard it would be to have a new shell  that     would
> use context to interpret the command like this:
> find -iname "*want*" -type f -0 | du --files0-from -

Nothing stops you from writing a shell script that wraps your common
command sequences in something shorter to type:

$ cat mydu
#!/bin/sh
# Usage: mydu PATTERN
# Determine the disk usage of all regular files located in `.'
# or below, with a case-insensitive match to the shell glob PATTERN.
find -iname "$1" -type f -print0 | du --files0-from -

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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