How to list directory size?

[Corey Bettenhausen]

Robert Dailey wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Robert Dailey wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm currently using Ubuntu Server 8. Is there a way to use the 'ls'
>> command
>>> to display the size of a directory? That is, the size should be the added
>>> size of the contents of files and other subdirectories (recursive).
>>>
>>>
>>     I use $du -h which tells you how many gigabytes you have.
> 
> 
> That's almost what I'm looking for, except I don't want it to be recursive.
So, which is it?  Recursive or not?  Either way, "man du".  Take note of 
the "--max-depth" option.  I usually like the "-c" option as well.
-Corey