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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Short 'n' dirty file space totaller
Message-ID: <2074@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 07:17:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.2074
Posted: Mon Oct 12 07:17:11 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 01:16:38 EDT
References: <239@ddsw1.UUCP> <8738@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: yet simpler

In article <8738@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Here's a real short, cheap-n-dirty disk usage tracker.  [40 lines of C]
>
>Um, did you consider:
>
>	du -s `awk -F: '{print $6}' /etc/passwd` | sed 's;.*/;;'

Even simpler, for most systems, will be something like
	du -s /u/*
(or /u?/* or whatever happens to match the directory/ies where
your users reside).

David Sherman
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