Re: du How does du work?

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From: Alexander (Sasha) Schichmanter
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00

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Try find

(man find ...)

Good luck.

lbliao <lbliao@alumnae.caltech.edu> wrote in article
<55u79a$n5o@gap.cco.caltech.edu>...
> How does du work? How does it descend down the filesystem and get the
name
> of each file? Is there a command that can recursively descend the file
system
> and give the name of the file to do something to? The other option of
piping
> or storing may be RAM or harddisk intensive.
> 
> thanks a lot!
> lbliao
> 
>

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From: "Alexander (Sasha) Schichmanter" <sashas@ncc.co.il>
Subject: Re: du How does du work?
Date: 1996/11/12
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