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?
"man du"
du will show file sizes; with the "-h" switch it will convert them into "human-friendly" format, and with the "-c" switch provide a sum of the sizes:
[john@starfleet tests]$ du -h -c *.in 1.0K all.in 1.0K am.in 1.0K cubic.in 1.0K derive.in 1.0K ellipse.in 1.0K finance.in 1.0K heron.in 2.0K limit.in 1.0K pie.in 1.0K points.in 1.0K pyth3d.in 1.0K test.in 1.0K test3.in 1.0K test4.in 1.0K test6.in 16K total
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-John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
