Find the total size of all directories that are owned by a particular User

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

I am writing a script in which i need find the total size of all the directories that are present in a directory which are owned by a particular user.

I will explain in details
i have a dir DIR1 in which i have 5 dir's DIRA DIRB DIRC DIRD DIRE.
DIRA DIRC DIRE are owned by "eswar" i need to find total size of all the three directories.

Thank you all,
Firestar.

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Part of the answer: du -s DIRA DIRC DIRE | awk '{ T+=$1; } END { print T/2, "KB" }'

What is your system? What is your shell?

3

Hi firestar,

Please try with:

owner=$(ls -l | awk '$1~/^d/ && $3~/eswar/{print $8}')
for i in $owner;
do du -sh $i;
done

Regards