du is a unix command to measure disk usage
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Why "find . -print0 | xargs -r0 du -chx" and "du -chx" different results?
When i try get total size of placed files with find . -print0 | xargs -r0 du -chx
it's return:
61G total.
When i use standalone du -chx it give me:
2.8T total
% df -h give same result:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md7 …
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du --zip myFile.zip?
What's the easiest way to use the "du" command on zip files? I'm sure this is quite a common use case, but I couldn't find anything using Google.
I'd rather not resort to mounting the zip file and running du as if it was an exploded directory.
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du -sh behaviour in terminal and from an python script?
With reference to my question at SuperUser, I am facing a puzzling situation where using du -sh /media/ExternalHd/myfolder/* works as expected from terminal, but using p=subprocess.Popen(['du', '-sh', '/media/ExternalHd/myfolder/*'],…
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sudo bashfile makes syntax error
i have got a bash file which i want to toggle via the sudo crontab list. Problem is, that it does not work, because when i run the script with sudo, there is a syntax error message on this line:
size=(`du -h $backupDir --summarize`)
If i run the…
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Using du to get size of specific sub directories
I'm trying to write a script to summarise a bunch of folders. So I have the following structure:
monitor/abc_123 1G
monitor/abc_213 1G
monitor/abc_111 2G
monitor/bbc_123 2.5G
What I need is to issue a command (using du I presume) to summarise the…
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how to use du -sh inside bash script
I want to create a keeper on my jobs file on the HPC in the campus. Should my disk usage exceed 50GB I want all my jobs to stop (and possibly get an email about this). What I want to do is something of this sort:
#!/bin/bash
run=1
while [ $run -gt…
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store diskspace value into variable
Using du command to get disk space, but only wanted the value, without the path. I am able to print using awk, but how to store only the value into variable?
du -sh $path | awk '{print $1}'
27G
du -sh $path
27G $path
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How to use 'grep -v' on 'du' output in Linux?
I'm running below command:
du -hs * | sort -hr | grep -v "*directory*"
But, I getting output as below:
[myuser@ip-1-2-3-4 opt]$ du -hs * | sort -hr | grep -v "*cannot read directory*"
du: cannot read directory ‘XYZ’: Permission denied
du: cannot…
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How to make du command throw input/output error
How to make du command throw input/output error. For some reason, I want to reproduce this use case and want to verify my fix before changes pushed to production. I am not able to understand how to reproduce this use case. I tried so many thing, but…
Subhash Karemore
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Linux: Get the real size of the files in a folder
I have two identical folders on different systems (diff shows that they are the same). However, du, du --apparent-size or the Dolphin-size of the folders show different sizes. I think this is related to the block sizes or the way a folder is…
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how to grep only the first word of the output
du -sb /home/user
1001869274 /home/user
How to grep only the numerical value (1001869274 in this case) and store it into a variable, like size=$(du -sb /home/user ...)
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The du command doesn't terminate on its own without a keyboard interrupt
Hello I have a windows 10 computer and am using Git Bash version 2.23.0. I am trying to learn how to write basic scripts following an online tutorial. The goal of this code would be to write the output to a different file as an html file. However…
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MacOS disk usage for directory reported as zero
In MacOS, the reported disk usage for a directory is sometimes reported as zero e.g.
$ du /etc
0 /etc
But, how is it possible to store any directory content without any blocks?
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recursively finding size of binary directories in linux
Could you recommend a good utility/BASH function that scans a directory and outputs it's size?
I need to find the size of the executables in the binary directories: /usr/bin and /bin in order to find their average and median.
I am not sure whether…
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Why directory copied with cp command has less size than the original one
I am tying to copy one directory with big amount of files to another destination. I did
cp -r src_dir another_destination/
Then I wanted to confirm that the size of the destination directory is the same as the original one:
du -s src_dir
3782288…
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