On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 20:35:12 +0100, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> 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? Probably what happened is you typed: du -k Sounds Library instead of: du -k "Sounds Library" The first command tries to run du on two directories named "Sounds" and "Library", whereas the second looks at just the directory named "Sounds Library".
