Re: file sizes

[Peter Scott]

At 04:02 PM 4/13/01 -0700, Paul Fontenot wrote:
>Hello,
>         How can I get a summary of the file sizes in a directory with 
> perl? Like a
>"du -s ." ?

du walks the directory tree summing all the components in subdirectories; 
Perl code to do that is going to be more than a few lines.  Any reason you 
can't do

  system("du -s .")

?  Otherwise you've got some work ahead of you with File::Find, since I 
can't see any module on CPAN for this.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies