On Oct 11, 2:52 ¨Βν¬ σπυδιγυ®®®ΐηναιμ®γον χςοτεΊ > 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. T.