du -g

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Greetings from South Africa

I need to know if it is possible to do a du -g targetfilename in crontab on a specifc date and write the results to a log file. If so can someone help me with the script.

Thanks

Cobus

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dont know what "du -g" is my Red Hat system doesnt use -g.

* * 1 * * {cmd to run} >> /path/to/logfile

That will run {cmd to run} and log the output to /path/to/logfile on the 1st day of every month.

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Use it UNIX to identify the file size