On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:18:33AM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:
Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
I'd like to find the total file size of a directory (with sub-directories). I can use 'du -s' except that I've been told that 'du' reports disk usage, which is not the same as file size. 'ls -l' will tell me the actual size of a single file, but won't tell me the sum of the sizes of files in a directory.
Am I going to have to write a script to do this seemingly simple task?
Thanks,
I've been doing this task using "du -h --max-depth=1" on my home directory to find out the sizes of each directory.
I always use 'du -h *' because it's shorter. (-:
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Except that 'du -h *' will print out all the directories _as well as_ all the subdirectories and their subdirectories and their subdirectories and so on.
'--max-depth=1' will just limit to the current directory's children files/directories, not their sub directories. This way I guess you don't recurse everywhere! =)
-- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Brigham Young University Provo, UT - 84604
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