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Steave

09-02-2001 06:04 AM

Directory size

Now here's an easy one: How can I display the size of a directory? - On the console! -

jharris

09-02-2001 07:08 AM

Code:

du -h directoryName

Should do you

HTH

Jamie...

DoubleLetter

09-02-2001 11:00 AM

du -hs directoryName

will display a summary.

Regards,

A.A

crabboy

09-02-2001 03:58 PM

Is du -h the same as du -s?

du -h does work on my machine, but my man page does not show a -h option.

DoubleLetter

09-03-2001 04:13 AM

-h displays the sizees in human-readable format [i.e as 1 mb not 10000 kb]

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