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
pod docs in filespod2usage() [Pod::Usage] (3pm)
- print a usage message from embedded pod
documentation
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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