[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Is there a command line utility which will report directory statistics?

[Leroy Tennison]

Graham Wilson wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:20:47AM -0600, Leroy Tennison wrote:
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>>Such things as number of files,
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>find $dir -type f | wc -l
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>>number of subdirectories,
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>find $dir -type d | wc -l
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>>size? 
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>du
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Thank you, that's exactly what I needed and would have never found by 
searching.  A couple of questions:

Where is $dir documented?  I thought it was a reference to a BASH shell 
variable but couldn't find either 'dir' or 'DIR' using "set | less". 
 Googling and trying Yahoo proved futile because both interpret the $ 
somehow.

Second, I take it that 'du' reports only in blocks rather than actual 
aggregates of sizes even if the '-b' switch is used, correct?  The 
reason I ask is that I'm looking for an equivalent of what the Evil 
Empire does when it calculates directory sizes.

Again, thanks for the help.