Re: du -s excluding size from directory entries?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/24/2014 08:41 PM, Aaron Davies wrote:
> would people be interested in a patch implementing this? it's about a
> dozen lines to add (~60 line patch).
> 
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 04/13/2013 08:22 AM, Aaron Davies wrote:
>>> is there an easy way to `du -s' a tree and ignore the size of the 
>>> directories themselves?
>>>
>>> if, e.g., i have one deep directory tree with a long history of 
>>> modifications, and another directory tree created from a `cp -a' of the 
>>> first, their `du -sb' results are likely to be somewhat different.
>>>
>>> i can get this result with something like `find -not -type d -print0|xargs 
>>> -r0 stat -c %s|paste -sd+|bc', but a simpler solution would be nice.
>>
>> How about:
>>
>>   find -not -type d -print0 | du -hc --files0-from=- | tail -n1
>>
>> That deals with hard links in the set too.

Does the above not suffice?
If it does it's probably better than adding extra options?

thanks,
Pádraig.