NAME

du_file - Display disk usage by file type.

DESCRIPTION

Use this program to display disk usage statistics based on filetype.

It'll tell you how many bytes are in use by mp3 files, gif files, html documents, etc..

USAGE

  du_file.pl /one /two /three

Sum up the usage of the three directories (if they exist) and report the usage, by filetype.

SAMPLE OUTPUT

                       DISK USAGE BY FILE EXTENSION.

    Prepared: Tue Nov  7 05:55:16

    Path:     /home/joe/perl/text

    File Type                        Files              Bytes
    ---------                        ---------          ----------------
    db                                        1                  9.88 M
    swp                                       1                 12.00 K
    cgi                                       1                  5.97 K
    pl                                        2                  3.19 K
    pm                                        1                  1.97 K

Download

Just download the source code and run it with perl:

  perl du_file.pl /usr/local/

It'll give you a report of your files in /usr/local