On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 20:35:12 +0100,
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(a)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".