grand-total pdu -c

[mcguirepatr]

Is there a way to print the grand-total, like du -c * does? I would like to do a pdu -sch *, so that it prints the size of each directory, followed by a grand-total at the end. If not, then can this feature be added?
Patrick

[KSXGitHub]

Try the following:

pdu --max-depth=1 *

pdu --max-depth=2 *

If you are still not satisfied, please let me know the difference.

[mcguirepatr]

I tried both of those, and neither of them prints a grand total at the end.
Patrick

[KSXGitHub]

What do you mean? pdu always print a tree structure. The root of this tree should be equal to grand total.

[mcguirepatr]

Maybe I am not using your pdu. I am using a pdu from PURE Storage in May 2018.
Patrick

[mcguirepatr]

yes, the output is certainly different from what you show.
I don't know much about the pdu from PURE storage, except that the man page says May 2018.
Patrick

[KSXGitHub]

Did you install that pdu from a Linux distro? What distro is it? (Just curious)

BTW, my pdu stands for "parallel-disk-usage". And I guess that pdu stands for "PURE's Disk Usage"?

[mcguirepatr]

The PURE Storage stuff was already installed on the computer that I am using.

I think the p in pdu might stand for parallelizable. There are a bunch of PURE Storage commands available, like pls, which has the man page title pls - Utility to parallelize an ls call to an NFS server, and for pdu the page title is pdu - Utility to parallelize a du call to an NFS server. Some of the other PURE Storage commands are pchmod, pchown, pfind, and prm. I just found out about the PURE Storage pdu today, and I do like it better than du.
Patrick

[KSXGitHub]

I searched "pdu - Utility to parallelize a du call to an NFS server" on Google and found no relevant result, lol. Anyway, I hope you can find the right issue tracker soon.

[mcguirepatr]

I just searched for "pure storage pdu" on Google, and this was one of the hits:
https://support.purestorage.com/Solutions/Linux/Linux_Reference/RapidFileToolkit
Patrick