On 01/27/2016 08:25 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I want to determine the size of the contents of all directories of a > tree of directories on a hexacore AMD64 machine with 4GB RAM an one > harddisk (containing that tree) -- most efficiently (least time > consuming). > > I tried this (cwd = root of that tree): > > find . -depth -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -P 6 du -bsx {} \; > > . Is there any to do this faster? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > Best regards, > Meino > > > > >
Did you try `du -cxb .` ? Dan