Calculate the Size of a Folder/Directory using .NET 4.0

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Post by johnastuntz » Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 11:03 AM UTC

Calculate the Size of a Folder/Directory using .NET 4.0
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Re: Calculate the Size of a Folder/Directory using .NET 4.0

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Post by mahmud » Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 12:53 PM UTC

Why is this here again? Some kind of advanced "Directory Enumerator" tech that we haven't heard of?

  du -h | grep -v '/' | gawk '{print $1}'

Re: Calculate the Size of a Folder/Directory using .NET 4.0

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Post by johkra » Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 1:41 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #2

Why is this here again? Some kind of advanced "Directory Enumerator" tech that we haven't heard of? du -h | grep -v '/' | gawk '{print $1}'

Mh, I always use du -sh, are there any reasons (compatibility?) to grep the output instead?

Re: Calculate the Size of a Folder/Directory using .NET 4.0

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Post by cottsak » Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 1:58 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #2

Why is this here again? Some kind of advanced "Directory Enumerator" tech that we haven't heard of? du -h | grep -v '/' | gawk '{print $1}'

agreed! hn is not for Hello World and this sure qualifies.

Re: Calculate the Size of a Folder/Directory using .NET 4.0

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Post by mahmud » Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 2:41 PM UTC

johkra wrote: post #3

mahmud wrote: post #2

Why is this here again? Some kind of advanced "Directory Enumerator" tech that we haven't heard of? du -h | grep -v '/' | gawk '{print $1}'

Mh, I always use du -sh , are there any reasons (compatibility?) to grep the output instead?

with gawk in the pipline, you can stream the results over fiber to a load-balanced cluster of WEDU (Windows Enterprise Disk Usage) appliances.