help understanding this command

vince_2x · 09-20-2004, 10:21 PM

Hi there!
does any one have an idea of how I would sum up the total disk space use by a user's files in a particular directory.

for example, say I wanna find out the total disk space use by user samy in the /var/ directory..

thanks

btmiller · 09-20-2004, 11:22 PM

Hmmm ... good question. Maybe something like:

find . -user <username> -type f -ls | awk 'BEGIN {total=0} {total += $7} END {print total}'

would work. Of course, if /var is its own partition, and you have the quota utilities installed, you can just use repquota. If you're going to try to limit the amount of disk users can use, that's probably the way to go.

aiza · 09-20-2004, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by vince_2x
Hi there!
does any one have an idea of how I would sum up the total disk space use by a user's files in a particular directory.

for example, say I wanna find out the total disk space use by user samy in the /var/ directory..

thanks

du -sh /directory

Tinkster · 09-21-2004, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by aiza
du -sh /directory

Where does samy come into the picture?

Cheers,
Tink

vince_2x · 09-21-2004, 12:42 AM

Oh thanks a lot btmiller.. this is exactly what I wanna do .. somehow I did modify the command a bit to get precise results.. somethink like

find /var/ -user $USER -type f -exec du -s -k -h {} \; | awk 'BEGIN {total=0}{total += $1}END{print total}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

thanks a lot