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In article <55u79a$n5o@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, lbliao 
(lbliao@alumnae.caltech.edu) blessed us with his opinion of the following..
>
>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
>

du reads the file & directory entries then lists the size of each file 
accordingly. If you wanted to get the summary (total) amount of space in 
blocks used by a directory, you can use "du -s dirname". There is also the 
command  "find startingpoint -print -exec command {} \;" or 
"find startingpoint | xargs command", to name just a few. 

See man du or man find for more info
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