help understanding this command
 

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

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.

Re: help understanding this command
 

Re: Re: help understanding this command
 

Where does samy come into the picture?


Cheers,
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vince_2x
 

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