Re: How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories

Nigel Henry wrote:
I have a question about du though. On the other machine where I
wanted to find out the size of my soundfiles directory, du couldn't
access it because it was named "Sounds Library" , without the
quotes. I renamed it putting a hyphen between the 2 words, and then
du accessed the directory ok, but all of the subdirectories are
multi worded without any hyphens, and du didn't have any problem
with them. Any reason why du will not access the main directory
without hyphenated words, and yet has no problem with all the
subdirectories?

It's not a big deal, just puzzling.

It's not likely a du issue, but a matter of quoting the dir.

btw. The now Sounds-Library (with the hyphen) is on a separate
harddrive so I have to run du as.

du -sh /mnt/hdb5/Sounds-Library

If you left it as Sounds Library you could use du as:

du -sh "/mnt/hdb5/Sounds Library"

or

du -sh /mnt/hdb5/Sounds\ Library

If you just use:

du -sh /mnt/hdb5/Sounds Library

then the shell passes du two separate arguments, /mnt/hdb5/Sounds and
Library; neither of which are likely to exist or be the intended
arguments.

HTH,

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