How to list directory size?

[Karl Larsen]

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.
>
>   
    Read man du. It might be possible to make it non-recursive, but for 
the life of me I can't think of why you want that.


Karl


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