On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:25:47PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > >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! =)
Oops, I meant 'du -s *', or you can do 'ls -A | xargs du -s' to catch hidden stuff. I guess it's a matter of preference. Justin ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
