How to list total file size of a directory

phil1076 · 12-18-2003, 03:29 PM

Ok...so if I do a ls -la I get a list of all the files and their respective sizes. How can I get a summary of the total number of files and the size of all the files in the directory?

Thanks in advance.

hw-tph · 12-18-2003, 03:35 PM

Try du -h. du = Disk usage.

The -h switch makes the output human-readable (ie, instead of 1024 bytes, 1k is printed, 1024k = 1M, and so on). This will also include the size of all subdirectories.

Håkan

Randy · 12-18-2003, 03:37 PM

Try doing a

$ du -h /dir

on the dir that you want to size.

To get the total number of files in a directory try this:

$ ls -l | wc -l

You can add these commands to a script if you ppan to use them often.

Hope this helps.

phil1076 · 12-18-2003, 03:47 PM

Yes, "du" is what I was looking for..thank you.