[TAG] [2 cents TIP] efficient use of "-exec" in find

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 05:27:01 MSK 2010


Hi Ben :)

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> What would be wrong with just using 'du -sk ~'?

The above command would show the total size of current user's home
directory, while "find ~ -type f -exec du -k {} +" will show the size
of each file inside current user's home directory.


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