Needing a little help with a ruby program

[Leslie Cain]

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 = Dir.new("#{ARGV[0]}")

disk_usage_info = `du #{specified_directory} -a`

file_size = Hash.new(0)


disk_usage_file.each_line do |file, size|
#Builds the hash with the filename and the sizes

end

file_size.each do|file, size|
#changes value to histogram of numbers and shows results

size = '#' * size / 1024

if size < 0
puts file +"\t | " + size

else
puts file

end

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.

Thanks,

Spudicus87

 

[Rob Biedenharn]

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 = Dir.new("#{ARGV[0]}")

disk_usage_info = `du #{specified_directory} -a`

file_size = Hash.new(0)


disk_usage_file.each_line do |file, size|
#Builds the hash with the filename and the sizes

end

file_size.each do|file, size|
#changes value to histogram of numbers and shows results

size = '#' * size / 1024

if size < 0
puts file +"\t | " + size

else
puts file

end

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.

Thanks,

Spudicus87

First, you might be overdoing the directory part. You may want to
simply test File.directory?(ARGV[0])

Look at each line in the du output. If it's anything like mine
(MacOSX), you have a number, some spaces, and a filename. Presumably
the filename could have embedded spaces so that may cause trouble if
you aren't careful.

Here are some hints:

Regexp#match (or String#=~) to catch both pieces.

String#split on the spaces between the number and the filename using
the optional second parameter to limit the number of parts.

String#to_i or Integer() to get an Integer from a string of digits

You might look at Kernel.sprintf or String#% to format at least the
filename portion of the output.

You may not even need to put the data into a Hash (or Array or
whatever) if you can process each line directly to the output that you
want.

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
(e-mail address removed)