Re: [SLUG] shell command for folder size w/ contents

From: Mike Branda (mike@wackyworld.tv)
Date: Thu Jul 22 2004 - 21:27:26 EDT


On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 20:48, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Mike Branda wrote:
>
> > Simple question but It's one of those silly things that I haven't
> > learned yet. Anybody have the shell command for finding a folder size
> > recursively in -h readable form?? Something to the equivalent of right
> > clicking a file in konqueror and seeing the directory size including
> > contents.
>
> 'du -sh foo'
>
> 'du' = 'disk usage'
> '-s' = 'summarize'
> '-h' = 'human readable'

thanks!! that was it.

Mike Jr.

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