On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 20:35:12 +0100, Nigel Henry cave.dnb@tiscali.fr wrote:
I have a question about du though. On the other machine where I wanted to find out the size of my soundfiles directory, du couldn't access it because it was named "Sounds Library" , without the quotes. I renamed it putting a hyphen between the 2 words, and then du accessed the directory ok, but all of the subdirectories are multi worded without any hyphens, and du didn't have any problem with them. Any reason why du will not access the main directory without hyphenated words, and yet has no problem with all the subdirectories?
Probably what happened is you typed: du -k Sounds Library instead of: du -k "Sounds Library"
The first command tries to run du on two directories named "Sounds" and "Library", whereas the second looks at just the directory named "Sounds Library".