Re: du doesn't take stdin

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Dan Heller wrote:
> 
> Is this an oversight or omission?
> I want to do:
> $ locate .jpg | sed [...] | du -c -b

Why should du read a list of files on stdin?

You can use xargs to convert stdin to a list of parameters:

    locate .jpg | sed [...] | xargs du -c -b

xargs comes with GNU findutils.

Regards,

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