Feature Request: du --include-from=file

[Heiko Baumann]

Hi,

it would be nice to have a --include-from=file option for du(1).

i have a plain text file with a lot of path names (verbose output from tar) in 
it and want to get the size for this files.

myhost:~ # du -sch `cat file.txt`
-bash: /usr/bin/du: Argument list too long
myhost:~ #

does not work.

i tried xargs(1) but this breaks -s functionality :(

so i hope this is a valid feature request :)

thanks a lot for the great work!

regards
heiko


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