Re: du How does du work?

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From: Roger L. Cordes, Jr.
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 00:00

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lbliao wrote:

> 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?

If you truly mean command, try man find(1).

If you mean programmatically, try man ftw(3).

Maybe,
R.

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