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Subject:	Re: Using du.exe to calculate disk usage on a Microsoft cluster server
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Will Beldman wrote:
> 
>  > In reply to:
>  >> On 03 July 2006 14:50, Will Beldman wrote:
>  >>
>  >> I need to determine disk usage for each directory on a Microsoft 
> cluster
>  >> server. As a linux junkie, du is *the* tool for automating this kind of
>  >> stuff so I installed cygwin, mapped some drives and tried to schedule
>  >> the utility to run at night. However, I get a lot of errors thrown back
>  >> such as:
>  >> 1. "No such file or directory" - Which tends to appear on weird
>  >> filenames (like with spaces or ' or some other character) or when I
>  >> don't have permission to access the drive (but that's something I 
> can fix)
> 
>  >Without seeing your script and knowing the dir names in question, it's 
> hard
>  > to say, but the obvious bet would be some kind of shell 
> quoting/escaping bug
>  > in the way you invoke 'du'.
> Right, I was sure of this. But how would I make du properly escape? I'm 
> trying to run the utility on S:/*. I don't have a defined list of 
> directories to run against.


Use POSIX paths (i.e. /cygdrive/s).  Here I think you've found an application
for 'find'.  How about something like:

find /cygdrive/s -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 du


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