On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Madan U Sreenivasan <mada...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Dhana Sekar <tkdhanase...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > command: du
> > purpose: du - estimate file space usage
>
> du - I think is short for 'disk usage'. Not sure if thats the intended
> acronym, but this helped me memorize the commands easily.
>

 From the BSD MAN pages:
     du -- display DISK USAGE statistics
so, I think, you are right :-)

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Natarajan
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