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10/11/2008 6:59:00 PM
On Oct 11, 2:52=A0pm, spudicu...@gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, so this is what I need to do for the program. I am not the best
> programmer in the world and I need a little help.
>
> Assignment:
>
> Create a program that obtains disk usage information from du and uses
> it to print a histogram of the disk usage of the directories given as
> command line arguments. The histogram should consist of a string with
> one hash mark per megabyte of disk usage.
>
> This is what I have so far.
>
> require 'fileutils'
>
> specified_directory =3D Dir.new("#{ARGV[0]}")
>
> disk_usage_info =3D `du #{specified_directory} -a`
>
> file_size =3D Hash.new(0)
>
> disk_usage_file.each_line do |file, size|
> =A0 #Builds the hash with the filename and the sizes
>
> end
>
> file_size.each do|file, size|
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 #changes value to histogram of numbers and shows results
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 size =3D '#' * size / 1024
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 if times < 0
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 puts file +"\t | " + size
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 else
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 puts file
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 end
>
> =A0 =A0 end
>
> I think I have the first part and the last part down pretty well, I am
> stuck on how to get the du output into the hash so I can output it
> correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
Study Regexp.
T.