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RE: Get directory size?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Sumpter)
Tue Dec 1 15:53:42 1998
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Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 12:42:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Lloyd Sumpter <Lloyd.Sumpter@BCHydro.bc.ca>
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du
(that's not a commentary - it's a program. tells you how much data is in the
current directory, and recursively down through every dir. I like piping it to
"size -n" so that the listing shows largest last)
On 01-Dec-98 George Lenzer wrote:
> 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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