On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:25:47 -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Findlay wrote: > > 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. (-: > > > <snip/> > > 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! =)
'du -sh *' takes care of that also. -- Andrew Jorgensen ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
