Print size of directory

FarAway · 07-13-2005, 12:27 PM

Hi all,

I have this question about the command ls.

Let say under the current directory /home/aaa/ i have directories which contain files and more directories. Which ls command can i use to print out the total size of the current directory?

I tried to use ls -lR, but it seems printed out a very long list, which contains every files under every directory, which is not i want.

Thanks in advance.

Matir · 07-13-2005, 01:15 PM

du.

For example,

Code:

du -sh .

Prints the total size of the current working directory and all subdirectories in a human readable form, such as 2.1G for 2.1 gigabytes. 'man du' for details.