How to list directory size?
Jonathan Hirschman
jonathan at hirschman.net
Sat Jun 28 20:14:57 UTC 2008
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).
>
Try this:
du -sh dir_name
replace dir_name with the name of your directory :) You may want to look
at other options in the manpage.
jh
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