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RE: Get directory size?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Tue Dec 1 15:49:20 1998

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:47:22 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: George Lenzer <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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du -sk dir

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===== Original Message from George Lenzer <redhat-list@redhat.com> at 
12/01/98 3:35 pm
>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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> George H. Lenzer
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-- Charles Galpin  <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>


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