Re: du enhancement

[Rusty Duplessis]

That's a fair point.  What we do when a filesystem gets full is email an 
alert and include the output from:

du --time -ahx /mountpoint | sort -k1,1hr -k4 | expand | head -100

You can quickly see the biggest directories and files, and if you knew one 
was a file (like a large log file), it might be an immediate target for 
clearing space.

Example, if the directories had trailing /, it would look like this:

3.7G    2023-10-20 09:31        ./
417M    2023-09-27 11:50        ./logs/
413M    2022-09-24 06:25        ./img/
254M    2023-08-08 09:29        ./monthlies/
247M    2023-10-18 10:08        ./patching/
131M    2023-10-19 09:57        ./awlprobdds01.pcap

In this case, I'd probably move or delete the pcap file.  I know that is 
normally recognized as a file, but sometimes it isn't so clear and why a 
trailing / for dirs would be nice.

Rusty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: "Rusty Duplessis" <rusty@bobpooch.com>; <coreutils@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2023 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: du enhancement


> On 20/10/2023 00:22, Rusty Duplessis wrote:
> > Would be nice to have an option to append a / to the end of directory 
> > names, so that you can distinguish between a file and directory when 
> > using -a.  Something like -F option to ls.
>
> It's a good suggestion.
>
> I generally only use du with single files / dirs,
> or otherwise I use a wrapper that makes dirs obvious (though coloring):
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/dutop
>
> I.e. the default output from du -a is hard to parse.
>
> thanks,
> Pádraig