[Techtalk] real life kewl text-processing and regexps samples
wanted
Aaron Malone
aaron at munge.net
Sat Jan 10 00:59:46 EST 2004
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:42:54 +0100
"R. Daneel Olivaw" <linuxchix at r-daneel.com> wrote:
> you should try 'du -c' or 'du --total', this sums it all up ;)
But if you're dealing with large numbers of files, you can exceed the
maximum argument length. The awk solution works with arbitrarily large
sets and odd constructions, e.g. 'find ~/Maildir -ctime +30 -type
f|xargs du -k|awk(etc)'. ;) And of course, it's useful for other cases
as well.
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Aaron Malone
aaron at munge.net
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