How to list directory size?

[Robert Dailey]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:

> On Sat June 28 2008 10:15:34 Robert Dailey wrote:
> > 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.
>
> When you carefully read "man du" before posting this question you must have
> accidently overlooked the "-s" switch.


I posted this question because I didn't know about 'du'...

-s switch did the trick.
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