Hi monks,

I have a drive space script (not mine,actually, but we're using it---we don't deserve any credit for it :)) that is running to try to determine user directory usage.

When it runs, it dies on a user's subdir with an apostrophe. I wonder if there is an "if" loop i can put into the following script to either escape the character(s) or to just skip the folder/dir.

here is the script, the error follows: 


#!/bin/perl -w
#
# find big directories in a particular file system

# ---- prompt user ----
print "directory> ";
$partName="/home/users/";
chomp $partName;
# ---- prompt user ----
print "size (in KB)> ";
$dirSize="50000";
chomp $dirSize;

# ---- find directories ----
@dirs=`find $partName -mount -type d | xargs du -sk`;

# ---- print details on large directories ----
for $_ ( @dirs ) {
    chomp;
    my($size,$dirname) = split;
    if ( $size > $dirSize ) {
        if ( $size > 1000000 ) {        # convert to GB
            $GB=$size/1000000;
            printf "%8.2f %s %s", $GB, "GB", "$dirname\n";
        } elsif ( $size > 1000 ) {      # convert to MB
            $MB=$size/1000;
            printf "%8.2f %s %s", $MB, "MB", "$dirname\n";
        } else {
            printf "%8.2f %s %s", $size, "KB", "$dirname\n";
        }
    }
}

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after /home/users is /home/users/0-z..etc/0-z...etc for the first two characters in their username..

xargs: Missing quote: /home/users/b/l/blah/ stuff/webtemp/MP#s
the MP#s in the error actually has a folder named "MP3's"

ANY

help would be appreciated....

In reply to drive space script dies on certain characters... by stevenrh

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