On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:01:38PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > This is a silly question perhaps. I have my soundfiles in a directory named > Sounds Library, this contains many subdirectories, which contain the .wav > files. > > What command can I use to find out the disk space this directory is taking up, > including all the files that are in the subdirectories? > > Nigel. > I wrote this a long time back for myself. It might suffice your needs. Cut paste the following code in a file say: dirsize, chmod +x dirsize and execute. #-CUT & PASTE--------------------------------------------------------- #/bin/bash IGNORE='proc /dev /sys /initrd /mnt /media' # This script produces a list of dir size. Selects only MB and above entries. # Arg is the dir name else pwd is selected if [ -z "$1" ]; then SDIR=`pwd` OutPut=/tmp`pwd` else SDIR=$1 OutPut=/tmp/${USER}/${1} fi echo "Output file is ${OutPut}/dir-size.out" mkdirhier ${OutPut} && ls -lAR --si --ignore="${IGNORE}" ${SDIR}|grep 'total' -B1|grep '^total[[:space:]][0-9\.]*[mMgG][[:space:]]*' -B1 >${OutPut}/dir-size.out 2>&1 echo -e "\nTotal Size Of Dir $SDIR" >>${OutPut}/dir-size.out 2>&1 du -ach ${SDIR}|grep "[[:space:]]total$" >>${OutPut}/dir-size.out 2>&1 less ${OutPut}/dir-size.out #-CUT & PASTE--------------------------------------------------------- -- vikram... |||||||| |||||||| ^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) (( \\ -- Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. - Alan Turing -- * ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795