RE: Feature Request: 'du' command allow filter by user name

[SCOTT FIELDS]

The problem is that doesn't provide you a summary, since it gives you usage for 
each file.

And sorry, I didn't include that as a use case, including '-s' option.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pádraig Brady <pixelbeat@gmail.com> On Behalf Of Pádraig Brady
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 12:39 PM
To: SCOTT FIELDS <Scott.Fields@kyndryl.com>; coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Feature Request: 'du' command allow filter by user name

On 09/01/2023 16:12, SCOTT FIELDS wrote:
> Though not incredibly difficult to script, it would be useful to have 'du' 
> allow a filter by 'user'.
> 
> AKA,
> 
> 'du -user <user> <path>' to show only the files and usage for the specified 
> user.

du isn't special in its filtering requirements here, and we can pipe robustly 
from the standard file filter like:

   find -type f -user $USER -print0 |
   du --files0-from=-

So I don't think this would be appropriate to add to du.

cheers,
Pádraig