Re: du How does du work?

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From: Icarus Sparry
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 00:00

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In the referenced article, lbliao@alumnae.caltech.edu (lbliao) writes:
>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.

If you are writing the program in C, you should see if the 'ftw' library
routine is available.

If you are writing in sh, then you should examine the 'find' command.
Icarus

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From: ccsis@bath.ac.uk (Icarus Sparry)
Subject: Re: du How does du work?
Date: 1996/11/08
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