I'm struggling to understand this behavior:
Script behavior: read a file (containing dates); print a list of files in a multi-level directory tree and get their size, print the file size only, (future step: sum the overall file size).
Starting script:
cat dates | xargs -I {} sh -c "echo '{}: '; du -d 2 "/folder/" | grep {} | head"
2000-03:
1000 /folder/2000-03balbasldas
2000-04:
12300 /folder/2000-04asdwqdas
[and so on]
But when I try to filter via awk on the first field, I still get the whole line
cat dates | xargs -I {} sh -c "echo '{}: '; du -d 2 "/folder/" | grep {} | awk '{print $1}'"
2000-03:
1000 /folder/2000-03balbasldas
2000-04:
12300 /folder/2000-04asdwqdas
I've already approached it via divide-et-impera, and the following command works just fine:
du -d 2 "/folder/" | grep '2000-03' | awk '{print $1}'
1000
I'm afraid that I'm missing something very trivial, but I haven't found anything so far.
Any idea? Thanks!
Input: directory containing folders named YYYY-MM-random_data and a file containing strings:
ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 user staff 68 Apr 24 11:21 2000-03-blablabla
drwxr-xr-x 2 user staff 68 Apr 24 11:21 2000-04-blablabla
drwxr-xr-x 2 user staff 68 Apr 24 11:21 2000-05-blablabla
drwxr-xr-x 2 user staff 68 Apr 24 11:21 2000-06-blablabla
drwxr-xr-x 2 user staff 68 Apr 24 11:21 2000-06-blablablb
drwxr-xr-x 2 user staff 68 Apr 24 11:21 2000-06-blablablc
[...]
cat dates
2000-03
2000-04
2000-05
[...]
Expected output: sum of the disk space occupied by all the files contained in the folder whose name include the string in the file dates
2000-03: 1000
2000-04: 2123
2000-05: 1222112
[...]
====== But in particular, I'm interested in why awk is not able to fetch the column $1 I asked it to.
Ok it seems I found the answer myself after a lot of research :D I'll post it here, hoping that it will help somebody else out.
The trick was to escape the $ sign.
cat dates | xargs -I {} sh -c "echo '{}: '; du -d 2 "/folder/" | grep {} | awk '{print \$1}'"