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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