Re: [Sheflug] listing sizes of directories..

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

du -s <direcory name>
	for raw size.

Add -k for kilobytes (more use!) or even better, -h (human readable) for
automatic.

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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Life would be so much easier if we 
could just look at the source code.
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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)?
> 
>  Baz.
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