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Re: Get directory size?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igmar Palsenberg)
Thu Dec 3 18:56:29 1998

From: "Igmar Palsenberg" <palsenberg@tebenet.nl>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:11:26 +0100
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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?


Yep. Try du

>Thanks

>--------------------------------------------
>George H. Lenzer



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