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Painfully slow: DU.exe -Ssb %CD%

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From: f0rhum <f0rhum <at> free.fr>
To: 28890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28890: Painfully slow: DU.exe -Ssb %CD%
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:08:35 +0200

man ncdu ? NCurses disk usage

Le 18/10/2017 à 14:12, Gavin Holt a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I am trying to use cmd batch file to list the size of all directories
> in my roaming user profile - so I an clean it out.
>
> DU.exe works well and gives me the exact output I want - the sum of
> the size of the files in each directory EXCLUDING subdirectories. e.g.
>
> P:\MyPrograms\EDITORS\Scite>du -Ssb %CD%
> 2641767 P:\MyPrograms\EDITORS\Scite
>
> P:\MyPrograms\EDITORS\Scite\tools>du -Ssb %CD%
> 8834439 P:\MyPrograms\EDITORS\Scite\tools
>
> I would use a for loop to iterate over all the directories, but
> testing with a single directory shows this command to be painfully
> slow.
> (dir /AD /B /S %USERPROFILE%)
>
> Is there any way to optimize the DU function or an alternative you can
> suggest that gives the identical output.
>
> I did read the link below - but the output is not what I wanted.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30513287/faster-way-to-get-folder-size-with-batch-script
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Gavin
>
>
>

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