[GH-ISSUE #225] Path with spaces are not recognized (Windows) #104

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2026-06-08T11:25:42+03:00

zhus commented

2026-06-08 11:25:42 +03:00

Originally created by @nadya-p on GitHub (Jul 7, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/bootandy/dust/issues/225

Typically on Windows, some paths contain spaces. Such the paths don't seem to be recognized by dust:

PS C:> ls .\test
-a---- 07/07/2022 14:23 5 file.txt
PS C:> ls '.\test with space'
-a---- 07/07/2022 14:23 5 file.txt

PS C:> a .\test
5B ┌── file.txt│█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │ 100%
5B ┌─┴ test │█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │ 100%

PS C:> a ".\test with space"
Did not have permissions for all directories

Originally created by @nadya-p on GitHub (Jul 7, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/bootandy/dust/issues/225 Typically on Windows, some paths contain spaces. Such the paths don't seem to be recognized by dust: PS C:\> ls .\test\ -a---- 07/07/2022 14:23 5 file.txt PS C:\> ls '.\test with space\' -a---- 07/07/2022 14:23 5 file.txt PS C:\> a .\test\ 5B ┌── file.txt│█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │ 100% 5B ┌─┴ test │█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │ 100% PS C:\> a ".\test with space\" Did not have permissions for all directories

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zhus commented

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@bootandy commented on GitHub (Jul 13, 2022):

I tried creating a path with a space in linux and it worked fine. Will likely need someone with a windows box to confirm and fix this.

@bootandy commented on GitHub (Jul 13, 2022): I tried creating a path with a space in linux and it worked fine. Will likely need someone with a windows box to confirm and fix this.

zhus commented

2026-06-08 11:25:42 +03:00

@jeffcai commented on GitHub (Jul 28, 2022):

I did test, if the director not exits it will show the exception: Did not have permissions for all directories, otherwise even with the directory name with space it still works, the tested release is dust-v0.8.1-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip on Win enterprise 10.

@jeffcai commented on GitHub (Jul 28, 2022): <img width="902" alt="issue" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/671273/181404437-a02baa3b-042d-4579-be1a-90063bd04b3f.png"> I did test, if the director not exits it will show the exception: Did not have permissions for all directories, otherwise even with the directory name with space it still works, the tested release is dust-v0.8.1-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip on Win enterprise 10.

zhus commented

2026-06-08 11:25:42 +03:00

@lesleyrs commented on GitHub (May 7, 2023):

Yea just like @jeffcai it works for me as long as the directory exists.

I still get the permission message when using dust in a system directory even with admin rights, not sure why? But it still works correctly. So I don't think there's a problem here.

@lesleyrs commented on GitHub (May 7, 2023): Yea just like @jeffcai it works for me as long as the directory exists. I still get the permission message when using `dust` in a system directory even with admin rights, not sure why? But it still works correctly. So I don't think there's a problem here.

zhus referenced this issue

2026-06-08 11:26:59 +03:00

[PR #104] [CLOSED] Dir size is the count of children not disk size #305

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