On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Sharad Birmiwal
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> If you know better command let me know
>>>
>>
>> du -sh <directory>
>
> Yes, I was going to suggest "du -s <directory>" as well. A side note:
> du returns the size of the blocks occupied by that directory and is
> NOT equal to the sum of the file sizes in that directory.
>
Hmm really?
The manual page doesn't say that:
NAME
du - estimate file space usage
SYNOPSIS
du [OPTION]... [FILE]...
du [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
DESCRIPTION
Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories.
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