X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44A9B1E3.6030408@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:10:11 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Using du.exe to calculate disk usage on a Microsoft cluster server References: <44A928AE DOT 1070805 AT bethel-crc DOT ca> In-Reply-To: <44A928AE.1070805@bethel-crc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/