In unix to get the usage of any directory we use the following command at the terminal du -sk / . In this we specify the directory of which we want the disk usage. Now consider the below code..

my ($location) = @_;
    print "\n".'Calculating Scan Statistics...'."\n";
 
    my $size =0;
    $size= `du -sk @_`;
    print "$size";

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Now when i use this code to access the du command it gives me the disk usage of the root directory irrespective of the directory specified . example @_=/ gives result 150002 , @_ = /usr gives same result 150002 . I want the individual disk usage of every directory ? help??

In reply to Unix size again by Anonymous Monk
in thread Unix size by Anonymous Monk

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