Re: [Sheflug] listing sizes of directories..

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  Hey again, gang.
> 
>  How do I list the size of a directory (instead of getting the fake size
> of 4k)?

Try 

  du -sk dirname

or

  du -sk .

Should return amount of space used in kilobytes.

Cheers

R

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