directory size listing with ls
 

Hi.

I'm trying to get 'ls' to show me the total size of a directory. ls -l just gives the directory entry size, but not the cumulative size of the files contained within it.

I can't see anything in the man page. Any ideas, please?

Hi,

To my knowledge this cannot be done with ls, take a look at du (du -s).

Hope this helps.

There is ls -dl but I don't think it shows you size.
I would use this instead in the directory:
du -h --max-depth=1