How do I know what is the size of directory with its contents.

nadavvin · 02-06-2007, 01:59 AM

With ls -l I can see only 4096 the size of any directory.

How do I know what is the size of directory with its contents?

timmeke · 02-06-2007, 02:13 AM

Try the "du" command.
Useful options:
-h for more easily readable sizes or -k for sizes in kilobytes rather than multiples of blocksize
-c for totals
-s if you only want sizes of specific items (ie one specific directory, without looking at the sizes of all files/subdirectories it contains)

For more details, see "man du".

nadavvin · 02-06-2007, 03:26 AM

thanks:

du -shc

J.W. · 02-06-2007, 11:11 PM

Alternatively

Code:

du --max-depth=1

which gives you the size of all the subdirectories of the directory you are in