need help in tab space !

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

i have a commad that display the total each directory size in KB.Below the commad and o/p:


ls -ltr | grep ^d | awk '{print $9}' | xargs du -sk

output:

what i want is the proper tab space b/w value and dir.? how to get that.
thanks in advance

2 
find ./* -type d -prune -print | xargs du -sk | sed 's/ /\t/'

Needs fewer program invocations too.

3

still not formating properly:

output:

156976  ./447_tools
234512  ./AMIS_Scripts
16324   ./CurrentCollectorResendTool
16952340        ./Incoming
4       ./Mail
204     ./OLD_AMIS_Scripts
206016  ./Outgoing
50682604        ./Processed
132628  ./Reports
4       ./arch_logs
10796   ./bin
20212   ./conf
136     ./doc
2107252 ./done_processing
141352  ./lib
6120932 ./logs
28      ./ssh
68      ./svmon_output
11396   ./temp
129692  ./tools
4

Could you post your output using the code-tags? 'Cause I see tabs in your output when I look at the sites source.

5

i have edited it. below is what i want:

28      	ssh
206016  	Outgoing
16125380        Incoming
4       	Mail
141352  	lib
136     	doc
50679708        Processed
204     	OLD_AMIS_Scripts
11396   	temp
129692  	tools
156976  	447_tools
4       	arch_logs
68      	svmon_output
20212   	conf
2107252 	done_processing
16324   	CurrentCollectorResendTool
132628  	Reports
234268  	AMIS_Scripts
10796   	bin
6083392 	logs
6

Have a look into printf. It's available in the shell and awk.

7

could able to get the use of printf here. what i want is that the directory name should be aligned rowwise

8

also i tried the below command using col command but not so successfull:

ls -ltr | grep ^d | awk '{print $9}' | xargs du -sk | col -bx

output:

28      ssh
206016  Outgoing
17477020        Incoming
4       Mail
141352  lib
136     doc
50685612        Processed
204     OLD_AMIS_Scripts
11396   temp
129692  tools
156976  447_tools
4       arch_logs
68      svmon_output
20212   conf
2107252 done_processing
16324   CurrentCollectorResendTool
132628  Reports
10796   bin
6133036 logs
234516  AMIS_Scripts

As i see 2 directory are not aligned in a proper column i.e. ( "Incoming" and "Processed" )

9

I did not understand what the problem is, to use printf.

10

Or just use "expand" at the end of the pipeline. My solution:

find ./* -type d -prune -print | xargs du -sk | tr ' ' '\t' |expand -10
11

thnaks otheus your command is working perfectly. ALso a great thankfull to all those for their suggestion