I am trying to evaluate the disk usage of a number of Unix user accounts. Simply, I am using the following command:
du -cBM --max-depth=1 | sort -n
But I’ve seen many error message like below. How can I exclude all such “Permission denied” messages from display?
du: `./james/.gnome2': Permission denied
My request could be very similar to the following list, by replacing “find” to “du”.
How can I exclude all "permission denied" messages from "find"?
The following thread does not work. I guess I am using bash.
Excluding hidden files from du command output with --exclude, grep -v or sed
du -cBM --max-depth=1 2>/dev/null | sort -n
or better in bash (just filter out this particular error, not all like last snippet)
du -cBM --max-depth=1 2> >(grep -v 'Permission denied') | sort -n