From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2005-09-06T05:51:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Help me clean up this method

David Brady wrote:
> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> 
>> just thought i'd point out that every solution posted thus far fails in a
>> variety of ways when links are considered
> 
> 
> If you have links, you also have du, which IMO is the Right Tool For 
> This Job:
> 
> total = `du --max-depth=0|cut -f 1`.to_i

sorry for stating the obvious, but: this isn't very portable.

cheers

Simon