On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I've only been using Linux for about a year now (actually it's a year > this month). My first computer was an IBM 8086 clone with MS-DOS 2.0. > I liked MS-DOS a lot better than MSWindows because if something went > wrong, the problem was a lot easier to find: all the files needed for a > single application were all kept in the same directory, etc. 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 know that > with nautilus you can do a Cntrl-A to select all the files in the > directory you're currently viewing and the total byte size will be shown > in the status bar, but is there a way to find out from a terminal > window? 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'. -sam
