Is there a command line quick way to show the size of all files in a directory (i.e. upto the depth of the directory tree)? Managed to do it with a script, although it doesn't traverse the whole directory tree associated with that directory.

You mean like 'du --max-depth=[n]'?

Hi , i feel your problem is there are a lot of subdirectories under a single directory and you want to know the size of each file and the total size .. issue du -mh as the command in the console you will get a message like this

[shaheen@LocalServer shaheen]$ du -mh
8.0K ./.kde/Autostart
12K ./.kde
8.0K ./.ssh
696K .

I feel this is going to help .. do let me know ... all the best

Shaheen

Hello shaheen,

so that means that all the files inside that directory and other subdirs, amount to 696K?

I mean, I want a facility just like Windows which gives you the total size of that folder (i mean, with all files, and files inside subdirectories, and so on...)

Dear ganninu , yes the command i posted displays the directory and the subdirectory list inside the directory from where you are issuing the command. So that 696k is the combined size of all the directory , subdirectory and the files inside them. I had other files inside the root directory thats why the file size showed 696k ,, du -mh doesnt show the size of files , thats reasonable bcos that is available by issuing ls -al /path/to/your/directory .. it will show the size of individual files ... but if you just want the complete size of all the files and the subdirectories inside the operable directory just issue that du -mh .. the last value is the combined size ,, but if you just want the complete size and not the individual size of the subdirectories ,, issue du -ksh ... you will only get that 696K not the subdirectory sizes .. i feel this is what you precisely want ... Hope this works , let me know if this clears out the problem ,, best of luck

Shaheen

ls -alR directory-name

(-R will do recursive)

du -s <directory_name>| awk -F" " '{print $1}'

is all what i wanted. Thanks for the "du" idea guys... The size is printed in kilobytes by the way.