Re: BASH issue with spaces in file names..

Le Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:08:05 +0100, Bill Marcum a écrit :

On 2008-12-04, Laurianne Gardeux <lg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No need of 'ls'.

du -hcs

does the job.
But if you really need the 'ls' command, you can take a pipe:

ls -1 | du -hcs

du doesn't use standard input.
ls | xargs du -hcs
The "-1" argument isn't necessary, because ls produces output in one
column when its standard output isn't a terminal.

Uups. Thank you for the correction. I have testded the wrong commande
above in a test-directory but 'ls' dosn't returned a error-message. So
'du' does the job fine without 'ls'. I expected something like "ls: write
error: cannot connect (pipe)". Is it possible that this error-message is
olny a feature of bash-builtins?

LG
.

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