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! =)
I think what he meant was "du -sh *". Isn't that (basically) identical to max-depth=1 ? (That's what I always do, regardless.)
~ ross
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