Re: duHow does du work?

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From: George Varndell
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 00:00

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lbliao wrote:
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> 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

Take a look at find. It does what you want.

Regards

George Varndell

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Date: 1996/11/08
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