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

[SCOTT FIELDS]

It depends on the directory and use, but y, not a common situation.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Pádraig Brady <pixelbeat@gmail.com> On Behalf Of Pádraig Brady
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 1:47 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 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.