Date: 02 Jan 2001 15:19:01 -0500 From: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: add -I ignoremask option to du(1) Message-ID: <ybur92lbtca.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> In-Reply-To: Chris Costello's message of "Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:07:55 -0600" References: <20001214034803.C575@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001230012354.B20546@holly.calldei.com> <20001230095122.A4285@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20001230160755.E20546@holly.calldei.com>
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Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> writes: >On Saturday, December 30, 2000, Peter Pentchev wrote: >> This doesn't 1. exclude subdirectories; 2. provide per-directory stats. >> In no way does it solve the problem I mentioned in the part you quoted - >> excluding CVS/ subdirs from du output on a source tree. > > Sorry. Try: > >find . -maxdepth 1 \! \( -path '*CVS*' \) | xargs du -skc Nope. First, this considers files to be the same as directories. Second, this only excludes CVS directories from the top level - deeper CVS directories are included. Suffice it to say this series of attempts indicates that find/etc is NOT a reasonable(*) way to implement this (reasonable) request. Add the argument to du(1). Randell (*): since no one here in what should be one of the most experienced group of BSD hackers has posted a workable "unix-style" method, I conclude that it's either not possible, or at least is so non-obvious as to be effectively non-existant to any but the most experienced user. That's the problem with the old-school Unix philosophy of no program doing more than one thing, and stringing them together - the "stringing them together" part often ends up being as complicated a task as programming a solution into the program itself - or even more complicated. That's ok (sort of) if everyone using it is a programmer, and doesn't mind reinventing the wheel every few days. It's not ok for 99% of users. Sure, shell's are programming languages - but I don't really want to write a program just to find out how much disk space I'm using, or to sort the output of ls (another old argument), etc. ps. yes, I am a shell-script hacker to a degree, and have written shells, and used shells in all sorts of evil ways - but I don't want to tell everyone else to try to do that. -- Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) rjesup@wgate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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