NAME

       qdirstat-cache-writer - script to write QDirStat cache files from cron jobs

Usage:

       qdirstat-cache-writer [-ldvh] <directory> [<cache-file-name>]

              If not specified, <cache-file-name> defaults to ".qdirstat.cache.gz" in <directory>.

              If  <cache-file-name> ends with ".gz", it will be compressed with gzip.  qdirstat can read gzipped
              and plain text cache files.

       -l     long format - always add full path, even for plain files

       -m     scan mounted file systems (cross file system boundaries)

       -v     verbose

       -d     debug

       -h     help (this usage message)

       QDirStat can read its information from cache files. This is a lot faster than reading all the directories
       in a directory tree and obtaining detailed information (size, type, last modification time) for each file
       and directory with the opendir() / readdir() and lstat()  system  calls  for  each  individual  file  and
       directory.

       QDirStat  can  also  write  those cache files ("Write Cache File..." from the "File" menu), but the whole
       point of cache files is being able to do that in the background when the user does not have to  wait  for
       it  -  like  in  a cron job running in the middle of the night. QDirStat itself cannot be used to do that
       because it is a KDE program and thus an X program that needs access to an X display - which cron does not
       provide.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org> for qdirstat.  Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU  General  Public
       License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

                                                    July 2017                           QDIRSTAT-CACHE-WRITER(1)