Re: size of a folder?

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

I know the "df" command to see how much free space is on the hard
drive.  there's also a command which can figure out how "big" a
directory is.  it doesn't seem to be "ls", near as I can tell.  any
ideas?


thanks,

Thufir

I know that you already got the answer, but in the vein of
teaching a man to fish rather than giving him a fish:

[edited to shorten lines]

[jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$ apropos usage
Pod::Usage           (3pm)  - print a usage message from embedded
                     pod documentation
df                   (1)  - report filesystem disk space usage
du                   (1)  - estimate file space usage
getrlimit            (2)  - get/set resource limits and usage
getrusage [getrlimit] (2)  - get/set resource limits and usage
lh_node_usage_stats [lh_stats] (3ssl)  - LHASH statistics
lh_node_usage_stats_bio [lh_stats] (3ssl)  - LHASH statistics
pod2usage            (1)  - print usage messages from embedded

quota                (1)  - display disk usage and limits
quotacheck           (8)  - scan a filesystem for disk usage, create,
                    check and repair quota files
setrlimit [getrlimit] (2)  - get/set resource limits and usage
time                 (1)  - time a simple command or give resource usage
[jmccarty@Presario-1 jmccarty]$

The apropos command is your friend.

Mike

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