1QDIRSTAT-CACHE-WRITER(1)    General Commands Manual   QDIRSTAT-CACHE-WRITER(1)
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NAME

6       qdirstat-cache-writer  - script to write QDirStat cache files from cron
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Usage:

10       qdirstat-cache-writer [-ldvh] <directory> [<cache-file-name>]
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12              If  not  specified,  <cache-file-name>   defaults   to   ".qdir‐
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15              If <cache-file-name> ends with ".gz", it will be compressed with
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18       -l     long format - always add full path, even for plain files
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20       -m     scan mounted file systems (cross file system boundaries)
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22       -v     verbose
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24       -d     debug
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26       -h     help (this usage message)
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28       QDirStat can read its information from  cache  files.  This  is  a  lot
29       faster than reading all the directories in a directory tree and obtain‐
30       ing detailed information (size, type, last modification time) for  each
31       file  and  directory  with the opendir() / readdir() and lstat() system
32       calls for each individual file and directory.
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34       QDirStat can also write those cache files ("Write Cache  File..."  from
35       the  "File"  menu), but the whole point of cache files is being able to
36       do that in the background when the user does not have to wait for it  -
37       like  in a cron job running in the middle of the night. QDirStat itself
38       cannot be used to do that because it is a KDE program  and  thus  an  X
39       program  that  needs  access to an X display - which cron does not pro‐
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AUTHOR

43       This manual page was written by Patrick Matthäi  <pmatthaei@debian.org>
44       for  qdirstat.  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
45       this document under the terms of the GNU General Public  License,  Ver‐
46       sion 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
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50                                   July 2017          QDIRSTAT-CACHE-WRITER(1)
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