Ruby equivalent for `du`

Ruby
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I wrote a simple method for recursively finding the size of a
directory, because I didn’t see anything in File::Stat or FileUtils
that does that. Am I missing it? Does Ruby already have an
equivalent to du?

def size(f)
return File.size(f) unless File.directory?(f)
Dir.entries(f)[2…-1].inject(0) {|total, s| total +
size(File.join(f, s))}
end

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On Dec 5, 10:51 am, Christian von Kleist [email protected] wrote:

I wrote a simple method for recursively finding the size of a
directory, because I didn’t see anything in File::Stat or FileUtils
that does that. Am I missing it? Does Ruby already have an
equivalent to du?

def size(f)
return File.size(f) unless File.directory?(f)
Dir.entries(f)[2…-1].inject(0) {|total, s| total + size(File.join(f, s))}
end

Couple problems with that approach 1.) assuming that “.”, “…” are the
first elements of the entries array, 2.) for deep directories you’ll
run out of stack very quickly. Have a look at the example at the top
of the Find module. :wink:

[1] http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Find.html

Regards,
Jordan

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On Dec 5, 2007 12:10 PM, MonkeeSage [email protected] wrote:

end

Good point! Something like %w(. …).include?(file) would be better
than relying on . and … to be the first two entries. I’m not worried
about stack space, though I did consider it. For this application I
won’t find thousands of levels of subdirectories, and even then I
probably wouldn’t run out of stack space. I could rewrite the
recursion as a loop, but…

As you suggested, I should have used Find.find instead. The
implementation is simpler, more readable, and more robust:

require ‘find’
def size(f)
total = 0
Find.find(f) {|s| total += File.directory?(s) ? 0 : File.size(s)}
total
end

(For my application I don’t care about the size of directories since
those are highly configuration dependent and this script must produce
the same result with the same file/directory tree on different
computers.)

Thanks, Jordan!

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On Dec 5, 11:53 am, Christian von Kleist [email protected] wrote:

equivalent to du?

recursion as a loop, but…

(For my application I don’t care about the size of directories since
those are highly configuration dependent and this script must produce
the same result with the same file/directory tree on different
computers.)

Thanks, Jordan!

No problem. :slight_smile:

Regards,
Jordan