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> Ok, so this is what I need to do for the program. I am not the best
> programmer in the world and I need a little help.
>
> Assignment:
>
> Create a program that obtains disk usage information from du and uses
> it to print a histogram of the disk usage of the directories given as
> command line arguments. The histogram should consist of a string with
> one hash mark per megabyte of disk usage.
>
> This is what I have so far.
>
> require 'fileutils'
>
> specified_directory = Dir.new("#{ARGV[0]}")
>
> disk_usage_info = `du #{specified_directory} -a`
>
> file_size = Hash.new(0)
>
> disk_usage_file.each_line do |file, size|
> #Builds the hash with the filename and the sizes
>
> end
>
> file_size.each do|file, size|
> #changes value to histogram of numbers and shows results
>
> size = '#' * size / 1024
>
> if times < 0
> puts file +"\t | " + size
>
> else
> puts file
>
> end
>
> end
>
> I think I have the first part and the last part down pretty well, I am
> stuck on how to get the du output into the hash so I can output it
> correctly. Any help would be appreciated.

Study Regexp.

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