Re: [PATCH] Support for --size in du

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/17/2013 01:23 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 07:18 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Sorry for the tardy response.
> > This was actually proposed previously.
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-01/msg00105.html
> > It's still a tempting option to add.
> > Given the simplicity, and usefulness +1 from me.
>
> "Liulk" reminded me off-list about this topic.
> This was the conversation:
>
> On 01/14/2013 02:30 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:> On 01/13/2013 06:34 AM, Likai 
> Liu wrote:
> > > Hi Bernhard,
> > >
> > > I noticed that at least two people have independently contributed their 
> > > implementation of the --min-size option to du in
> > > the past.
> > >
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-01/msg00105.html
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-10/msg00046.html
> > >
> > > And I was on my way to become the third one, except I realized none of their 
> > > contributions made in to coreutils.
> > >
> > > Is there a reason for rejecting their patches, or do you have plans to 
> > > incorporate them at some point?
> > >
> > > liulk
> >
> > Hi Liulk,
> >
> > thanks for the heads-up - I think we lost focus on this.
> > The last reply on this was from Padraig:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-01/msg00032.html
> >
> > I'm working on a complete patch incl. tests and docs now
> > and will post it on the mailing list soon.
> >
> > Have a nice day,
> > Berny
>
>
> I was pretty sure that this slipped also from Padraig's list.

Sorry for the delay in this.

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> Therefore, I took Jakob's patch and amended it with documentation
> and a comprehensive test. ;-)

Wow great work on the test.

I wonder would it make sense to have consistent --size
handling for du and truncate. I.E. have --size='<10M'
specify the max size and --size='>10M' specify the min size?

thanks!
Pádraig.