[SOLVED] Script Programing GetFolderSize

MODYSAMA · 02-05-2011, 01:38 PM

hi,
If I want to use that result to be saved in a variable, which type would it be in script?

For clearing:
let variable x and destination path is y/z

in prog.sh:
x=du -hb /y/z
echo $x

Quote:

Q1: What type of x?
Q2: What option instead of -hb to presedent the size in kib?

Linux beginner.

David the H. · 02-05-2011, 02:36 PM

Code:

x="$( du -hb /y/z )"  # $() is used for embedded commands in most shells.
echo "$x"  #Needs to be quoted to protect the display of newlines.

A1. Shell variables don't have any defined type by default. How they are treated depends on their content and the context they are used in. But there are usually switches you can use when declaring them to give them certain attributes, such as integers, array variables, or lowercase- or uppercase-only. See man bash or the documentation of your shell for details.

A2. According to the du man page:

Code:

Display  values  are  in  units  of the first available SIZE from --block-size,
and the DU_BLOCK_SIZE,  BLOCK_SIZE  and  BLOCKSIZE  environment  variables.
Otherwise,  units default to 1024 bytes (or 512 if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set).

SIZE  may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following: KB
1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.

So du -h -B K seems to work.

MODYSAMA · 02-06-2011, 07:36 AM

Thank you.

Code:

# Checking folder size
emp=4096
#declare -i k
k="$( du -b )"
echo "$k"
if [ "$k" -gt "$emp" ]; then
echo "not empty Folder"
else
echo "empty Folder"
fi

Error:

Quote:

sok@sok-HP-ProBook-4520s:~/Scripts$ bash ./GetFolderSize.sh
5535 .
./GetFolderSize.sh: line 6: [: 5535 .: integer expression expected
empty Folder

Q: How is casting the size into integer,please?

goodhombre · 02-06-2011, 08:26 AM

Hi,

Try :

Code:

# Checking folder size
emp=4096
#declare -i k
k=$( du -b |awk '{print $1}')
echo "$k"
if [ $k -gt $emp ]; then
echo "not empty Folder"
else
echo "empty Folder"
fi

The issue was that du -b returns the name o directory too ("." - current directory )

Code:

/home/calin/scripts$k=$(du -b)
echo "k = $k"
k = 4531	.

MODYSAMA · 02-06-2011, 08:36 AM

Many thanks. It works great.
Could you explain, what is the role of |awk '{print $1}', please?

goodhombre · 02-06-2011, 09:10 AM

Hi,

It prints (selects) only 1's column.

MODYSAMA · 02-06-2011, 10:09 AM

Thank you, goodhombre!

David the H. · 02-06-2011, 12:12 PM

If the directory contains subdirectories, then du will return multiple lines and break the integer test. Try adding the -s option.

And instead of using awk, you can use bash's parameter substitution to strip off the unwanted parts of the variable string. I also think it would be a good idea to explicitly pass the directory you want to test to du.

Code:

# Checking folder size
emp=4096
tdir="${1:-$PWD}"  #use present working directory if no parameter given
shopt -s extquote

k=$( du -sb "$tdir" )
k="${k%%$'\t'*}"

echo "$k"

if [ "$k" -gt "$emp" ]; then
   echo "not empty Folder"
else
   echo "empty Folder"
fi

The output of du is tab-delimited, so you need to use $'\t' to insert a literal tab character in the script. This means you also need the extquote shell option enabled. However, the [:space:] regex character class could be used instead:

Code:

k="${k%%[[:space:]]*}"

It's also usually a good idea to quote variables inside single-bracket tests.

But if all you want to do is check whether a folder is empty or not, there are other ways to go about it. See here for an example that doesn't rely on any external tools: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/004

Google should turn up many more.

MODYSAMA · 02-07-2011, 07:01 AM

Thank you.

MODYSAMA · 02-07-2011, 07:45 AM

Excuse me,
Q1: Could you explain in details the following cmd:

Quote:

k="${k%%$'\t'*}

Q2: When to use Parenthesis {} and when $(())?

David the H. · 02-07-2011, 08:59 AM

The basic pattern is explained in the parameter substitution link I gave you. The variable's contents are modified before expansion. With ${variable%%pattern}, it removes the longest section that matches the pattern from the end of the string that variable contains.

$'' is a quoting pattern that will expand backslash-escaped special characters like \n (newline) and \t (tab) into their literal equivalents. In order to be used inside of parameter substitution, the extquote shell option needs to be enabled.

So ${k%%$'\t'*} will match and remove the first tab it finds and everything following it. Only the number will be left. Then we just use that pattern to reset the variable to the new value.

I'm not sure I understand the second question exactly. Brackets, "{ }" are usually used to group commands together (without creating a subprocess), but there are other uses for them as well, such as brace expansion. Single parentheses, "( )" can also be used to group commands together, but it runs them in a subshell. "$(( ))" is a substitution pattern for arithmetical operations, just as "$( )" is the substitution pattern for command operations. Try running echo "$(( 1 + 1 ))".

I think you really need to study more about scripting on your own.
Here are a few useful bash scripting references:
http://www.linuxcommand.org/index.php
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

MODYSAMA · 02-07-2011, 02:01 PM

David the H. Thank you.
Thanks I need that as I said am just a Linux biginner.