Re: Obtaining the size of a directory

FROM : Dominik Freyer
DATE : Mon Oct 18 17:21:50 2004

Yes, you're absolutely right about the parameters.
I was overwhelmed when I saw, how fast the du command was able to
determine the correct size, even with a big tree behind a folder. Using
the Finder it takes much larger amounts of time, sometimes it seems to
even forget to recurse the directory and doesn't display anything.


Am 18.10.2004 um 16:49 schrieb Freek Dijkstra:

> On 18-10-2004 13:49, "Dominik Freyer" <<email_removed>> wrote:
>

>> In the meantime I found a BSD Command 'du -hs' which can give me very
>> fast the correct directory size.

>
> Yes, though you may want to use 'du -ks' rather then -h to get machine
> interpretable output. See man page for details.
>
> By the way: I think du also just traverse the directories recursively,
> but
> apparantly is very fast in doing so.
>
> Regards,
> Freek
>
>
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