Géraud Meyer wrote:
> please add a `--files-from' option to du that reads a NEWLINE
> separated list of files from a given file. ... P.S. Making other
> programs of the coreutils package able to deal with NULL terminated
> "lines" would also be nice.
How this is not satisfied by using the 'xargs' program? Could you say
a few words about how you are trying to use this command? Does this
following example satisfy your needs?
head datafile | xargs -r du
Also you may not be aware of the new find options now available.
POSIX defines the find "-exec command {} +" arguments now to
efficiently process arguments to commands. This may be used with du.
Here is one simple example.
find . -type f -exec du {} +
Bob
