command: file size?
 

What is the command to see the sizes of files?

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.

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

ls --help

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

Re: command: file size?
 

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

You can find more option in man:)

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>