how much space are my .isos taking up?

[First Name Last Name]

Go to edit and find Preferences in the drop down menu.
Click on Preferences.
Find the tab for List Columns.
Check mark Size.
Close out the sub-menu.
You should now see the size of every file listed under the icon or by the
listing for that file.

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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:53 PM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 October 2018 22:47:30 Dave Stevens wrote:
>
> > I was surprised when I ran "locate .iso" to see twenty or so in the
> > list. Does anyone know a handy way to get a listing with file sizes?
> >
> > tia
> >
> > Dave
>
> Try something like this:
>
> #> ls -l `locate *.iso`
>
> Note that those are backticks, below the tilde on a US keyboard. They
> contain the response from locate, backfeeding to the ls -l.
>
> And that if you also want a total file count, append a "|wc -l" to the
> above command line, without the dbl-quotes of course. :)
>
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