Re: Feature Request: 'du' command allow filter by user name

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/01/2023 18:45, SCOTT FIELDS wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBradin.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 12:39 PM
> > To: SCOTT FIELDS <Scott.Fields@kyndryl.com>; coreutils@gnu.org
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Feature Request: 'du' command allow filter by user name
> >
> > On 09/01/2023 16:12, SCOTT FIELDS wrote:
> > > Though not incredibly difficult to script, it would be useful to have 'du' 
> > > allow a filter by 'user'.
> > >
> > > AKA,
> > >
> > > 'du -user <user> <path>' to show only the files and usage for the specified 
> > > user.
> >
> > du isn't special in its filtering requirements here, and we can pipe robustly 
> > from the standard file filter like:
> >
> >     find -type f -user $USER -print0 |
> >     du --files0-from=-
> >
> > So I don't think this would be appropriate to add to du.
>
> The problem is that doesn't provide you a summary, since it gives you usage 
for each file.
>
> And sorry, I didn't include that as a use case, including '-s' option.

Fair enough.
Though that use case is unusual.
I.e. directories with multiple users.

Even then, since the invocation is per user,
you can use the `--total | tail -n1` option to
get a single usage for the user,
albeit not summarized per specified directory.

cheers,
Pádraig.