du(1) for FTP sites

[Benjamin Scott]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Kevin D. Clark
<kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> wrote:
>>   Kevin's wget-based implementation worked (thanks again, Kevin!), but
>> was slow due to repeated invocations of wget.
>
> Yeah, the big design principal behind my implementation was that I was
> trying to get it done in less than ~30 minutes...before I had to get
> going home.

  Oh, I understand completely, and indeed, the "available right now"
aspect came in very useful for me.  It was only the next day that I
started toying around with the code and things kind of snowballed into
a multi-hour research/coding/testing session.  Those feeping creatures
are dangerous!  ;-)

-- Ben