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Re: Get directory size?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Reed)
Tue Dec 1 15:45:03 1998

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:48:26 -0500
From: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <000d01be1d6a$33a3e330$f80a020a@tech.chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
	(glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us)
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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
> 
> --------------------------------------------
>  George H. Lenzer
>  Technology Specialist
>  Cleveland Heights-University Heights
>  P u b l i c  L i b r a r y
>  2345 Lee Rd. Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
>  Voice - (216)932-3600 x274
>  E-mail: glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us

du - man du for the details.

Dave


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