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"total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

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Message #103 received at 44273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 44273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:41:01 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org,  jidanni <at> jidanni.org,  44273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:36:07 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> The data can come from `ls-lisp', but it could also come from "ls": We
> >> just need to write a parser that parses the data.
> >
> > The data which comes from 'ls' can take many different formats,
> > depending on the switches.  Parsing each and every one of them sounds
> > daunting.
> 
> But dired does parse the output.

And frequently fails, without the support provided by --dired.

And its parsing is only partial anyway.

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