command: file size?

psychobuffalo · 08-23-2005, 10:26 PM

What is the command to see the sizes of files?

jrdioko · 08-23-2005, 10:59 PM

du

I usually do "du -sh" to show just what files/directories you want and give you "human-readable" output instead of size in bytes.

DMRansom · 08-23-2005, 11:02 PM

ls -sh
will give you file size in human readable format
you can get more options with
man ls

ls --help

jrdioko · 08-23-2005, 11:06 PM

Well that's handy. I knew "ls -lh" would do it but never saw "-s". Thanks

delackoo · 08-24-2005, 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by psychobuffalo
What is the command to see the sizes of files?

du -ah/-ch/-lh/-sh filename
ls -lh/-sh filename
...

You can find more option in man

psychobuffalo · 08-24-2005, 10:30 AM

Thanks for your responses - I couldn't remember the du command. I had actually looked at the ls man, but I'm too much of a n00b to figure out the "-sh" argument.<g>