I am really fond of du, and I often like to use it like this:
$ du -hsc /var/mail/ /var/log/ 2>/dev/null
4,0K /var/mail/
5,7M /var/log/
5,7M total
However, I'd like to be able to print out sizes in format "[bytes] [kbytes]K [mbytes]M"; and as far as I can see, I cannot do that:
$ du -hscb /var/mail/ /var/log/ 2>/dev/null
4096 /var/mail/
14734462 /var/log/
14738558 total
$ du -hsck /var/mail/ /var/log/ 2>/dev/null
4 /var/mail/
5764 /var/log/
5768 total
$ du -hscm /var/mail/ /var/log/ 2>/dev/null
1 /var/mail/
6 /var/log/
6 total
$ # all (b,k,m) here:
$ du -hscbkm /var/mail/ /var/log/ 2>/dev/null
1 /var/mail/
15 /var/log/
15 total
The k,b,m switches simply choose a block size, and then a prefix (K, M) is not even printed (and when you run them all together, you get some weird sizes reported).
Any ideas if there is something like a size format specifier string for du?
Many thanks in advance for any answers,
Cheers!
