How to list directory size?

[Robert Dailey]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Corey Bettenhausen <corey at 31415926535.com>
wrote:

> 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


When I mentioned "recursive" in my original post, I was referring to the
math- The math that calculates the size of the folder should be recursive,
in that it will search the directory tree for all files under the folder in
question and add their sizes together to form the final directory size. The
display routine itself should *NOT* be recursive, as I only care to see the
size of a specific folder and NOT its contents.
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