On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 06:15:50PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Anyway, in MS-DOS, when you ask for a directory listing, it listed the > > files in the directory you were asking for (like ls), but it also gave a > > listing of the total bytes contained in the files in the listing you asked > > for. I was wondering if there was any way I could do that with ls. > I use 'du' for this. For example, to see how much space I'm wasting > on mp3s: > > $ cd mp3 > $ du -sh . > 3.6G . > > That number includes all the files in mp3/ and all subdirectories, > which is usually what I want. For more information about 'du' run > 'man du'. And if you don't want the subdirectories, add -S to this command: $ du -shS -- Kind regards, Andre
