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Get directory size?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Lenzer)
Tue Dec 1 15:39:10 1998

From: "George Lenzer" <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
To: "Redhat list" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:35:58 -0500
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Is there a way to find out how much data a directory contains?  Although
I've been using Linux for close to eight months now, I still haven't found
any obvious way to get 'ls' or 'df' to display the size of a directory's
contents in K or Megs.  Any suggestions?

Thanks

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