<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>for i in <full path to folders to process>; do du ${i} >> <storage>/filesizes-$(date +%Y%m%d) ; done<br><br></div>run daily:<br></div><div>for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do<br></div> diff <storage>/filesizes_$(date -d "today" +%Y%m%d) <storage>/filesizes_$(date -d "${i} days ago" +%Y%m%d) > <storage>/${i}_day_changes<br>
</div>done<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 08/14/2014 02:28 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:<br>
> David,<br>
><br>
> Try to see how much space I use in 5 days, so I can plug into a spread<br>
> sheet to figure up the cost, they give different rates for how much we<br>
> store.<br>
><br>
> Thanks I will try that.<br>
><br>
> By way, we need to do lunch.<br>
</div>if you do a :<br>
# du -S|tail -1<br>
<br>
it will give you the total ( of that folder... or specify a folder)<br>
<br>
do that every day in a cron and do 'date'>> to that file in the cron job..<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Paul Cartwright<br>
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587<br>
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