Re: Did I found a bug in "ls"?

[James Youngman]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Major Péter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to list some folders with they block-sizes, but only specific
> folders am I interested.
> So I would like to use find to list the correct folders for me:
> ls `find . -type d -user foo -name "*"`

-name "*" is redundant I think.

> this is not working because ls can't find folders with spaces in there name,
> so I am using a pipe and sed, to make it comfortable:

This is a very dangerous way to try to solve this problem.  See the
findutils Texinfo manual, in particular the section "Safe File Name
Handling".


> ls `find . -user major -type d -name "*" | sed 's,\ ,\\\ ,g'`
> If I'm using echo instead ls, the output is:
> ./foo\ bar
> So I tried to use:
> ls ./foo\ bar
> And it worked!
> The easiest way to check this is using this command in a folder where are
> folders with spaces in they names:
> ls `ls -a | sed 's,\ ,\\\ ,g'`
> Is there may an other way to find out the folders block-size belonging to a
> specific user?

Do you mean the total size in blocks of the contents of each directory
owned by a user?    Or the size in blocks occupied by each directory
(i.e. list of files) itself?    I'm not sure I clearly understand what
you wanted to do, so it is hard for me to be sure this is the correct
answer, but this is a reasonable guess I think:

$ find glpk -depth -type d -user youngman -print0 | du -s --files0-from=-
1936    glpk/glpk-4.8/doc
12      glpk/glpk-4.8/examples/.deps
1756    glpk/glpk-4.8/examples
356     glpk/glpk-4.8/include
176     glpk/glpk-4.8/src/.deps
3528    glpk/glpk-4.8/src
8       glpk/glpk-4.8/sysdep/gnu
12      glpk/glpk-4.8/sysdep/w32
24      glpk/glpk-4.8/sysdep
7880    glpk/glpk-4.8
960     glpk/tarfile
8844    glpk




> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Major
>
>
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