I intend to suggest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about adding a tar-like -T / --files-from option to du. But does anyone agree that such option is needed/desirable? Suppose I have 9000 files and I want to know the total disk usage of 4500 of them. The file names don't have any common patterns (so we can't use --exclude) and are longish, so specifying them as arguments results in the shell complaining 'argument list too long'. I can't split into several du invocation or just total the file sizes because some files might be cross-linked and there might be sparse files.
Sure, we can use -X / --exclude-from, but shouldn't we have -T / --files-from too, for convenience? Regards, dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]