[Gllug] Job Advert

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Thu Feb 8 21:48:12 UTC 2007


Ian Northeast writes:

>>>3. How do you find out the disk usage of a directory?
>
>> It depends upon which *NIX variant you are running. Assuming Linux as this
>> is gllug:
>
>> du
>
>I'm not aware of *any* *nix of which the above isn't true and I've used 
>most of the common ones (and some uncommon ones:) Do you know of any 
>where it isn't?

OS/390, perhaps? du is part of the User Portability Utilities group,
which is optional for a Unix system. Admittedly, virtually all of them
have it, but it's possible there's a Unix out there that doesn't...

Tet
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