excluding dirs with du

[jad...@ti.lmco.com]

Does anyone know of a du-like utility or has anyone modified du
to exclude certain directories? I have a NFS fileserver which
creates live backups in a .snapshot dir for each directory on the
NFS server. I'd like to get du reports which exclude these .snapshot
dirs. Does anyone know of such a utility?

Thanks!
-Jeff

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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:02:30 -0600, in <8751453...@dejanews.com>,
jad...@ti.lmco.com wrote:
jtlc> Does anyone know of a du-like utility or has anyone modified du
jtlc> to exclude certain directories? I have a NFS fileserver which
jtlc> creates live backups in a .snapshot dir for each directory on the
jtlc> NFS server. I'd like to get du reports which exclude these .snapshot
jtlc> dirs. Does anyone know of such a utility?

Your mileage may vary:

DU(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual

NAME
du - display disk usage statistics

SYNOPSIS
du [-H | -L | -P] [-a | -s | -d depth] [-x] [file ...]

[munch]

-x Filesystem mount points are not traversed.

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[Collin Douglas]

jad...@ti.lmco.com wrote:

> Does anyone know of a du-like utility or has anyone modified du

> to exclude certain directories? I have a NFS fileserver which

> creates live backups in a .snapshot dir for each directory on the

> NFS server. I'd like to get du reports which exclude these .snapshot

> dirs. Does anyone know of such a utility?
>

> Thanks!
> -Jeff
>
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It may not be what you had in mind but what about piping du through grep -v?

du / | grep -v "^\./filesystem/.snapshot"

-collin