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Old 10-29-2005, 03:35 AM   #1
andy7t
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Listing Directory Size

Is there any way to list the size of directories from the shell prompt?

I have about 200 folders inside /home, and I want to see the size of each one.

Is there any way of doing it?

I tried

ls --size, but that always returns "1" for each directory.

Maybe i could write a shell script... but i don't want to have to do that.
 
Old 10-29-2005, 03:44 AM   #2
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have a look at du
Code:
du -sh /home/*
 
Old 12-14-2008, 02:46 PM   #3
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