diff --git a/7/README.md b/7/README.md index 0d1b579..4dec201 100644 --- a/7/README.md +++ b/7/README.md @@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ Today's language: **Bash** + **awk** -The way the challenge is laid out is absolutely ridiculus; both tasks could be done in one-liners on a Linux machine in any POSIX shell, -IF the user wasn't as stupid... +## Day 7 is stupid +The way the challenge is laid out is absolutely ridiculus; both tasks could be done in one-liners on a Linux machine *(which the device from the challenge probably is)* +in any POSIX shell, +*if* the user wasn't as stupid... That's why I wrote a bash script that actually creates the whole filesystem from the input-file. It does so (by default) in `/tmp`. The sizes for the files are only allocated so that `du` shows the filesize, no write operations are taking place. +### I am stupid The problem is, that (even empty) directories have a size, which also increases with every file and subdirectory in it. That's why I needed to calculate the sizes of the directories *without* the actual file sizes and subtract that from the output of `du`. This new output can then be piped into an `awk` one-liner. In reality, this problem wouldn't exist since you would want the total size of a directory anyway. @@ -21,6 +24,7 @@ du -b / | awk 'BEGIN{sum=0} {if ($1 <= 100000) {sum+=($1)}} END{print "Total siz du -b / | awk 'BEGIN{file=""; size=99999999} {if ($1 >= min_size && $1 < size) {size=$1; file=$2}} END{print "You should delete "file" size("size")"}' ``` +## Run today's code ```shell ./day7.sh output.txt ```