Re: tree with dir size

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 07:42:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 03 Jun 2024 at 18:29:17 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > ‘-s’
> > ‘--summarize’
> >      Display only a total for each argument.
> > 
> > There's supposed to be a total *FOR EACH ARGUMENT*.  There isn't.
> 
> Try adding -l. The idea is that du is trying to avoid double-counting,
> so when the subdirectories come first, those ones are "used up" by
> the time it reaches the parent. When the parent is first, it's (all)
> the subdirectories instead that have been "used up".

‘-l’
‘--count-links’
     Count the size of all files, even if they have appeared already (as
     a hard link).

This documentation leaves a lot to be desired.

Anyway, you are correct about the result, even if the documentation gives
no realistic way to conclude such a result.

hobbit:~$ printf '%s\0' "${1:-.}" "${1:-.}"/*/ | xargs -0 du -shl
684M    /usr/local
81M     /usr/local/bin/
4.0K    /usr/local/etc/
4.0K    /usr/local/games/
136K    /usr/local/include/
45M     /usr/local/lib/
29M     /usr/local/man/
8.0K    /usr/local/sbin/
31M     /usr/local/share/
484M    /usr/local/src/
44M     /usr/local/tcl8.6/