how much space are my .isos taking up?

[Dave Stevens]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:49:47 -0700
First Name Last Name <hideserted at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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got it now, thanks for all answers!

D

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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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