[NTLUG:Discuss] Probably dumb question about total size of directory

[David D. Scribner]

Give 'du -h' a try. That may give you the info you're looking for.

severian at pobox.com [severian at pobox.com] wrote:
> Howdy,
>   I just finished mirroring the ftp install directory of SuSE 8.2 
> today.  I wanted to find how much I had downloaded.  The closest I could 
> find was   ls -R -s
> This will tell me the total disk space used in each directory and then I'd 
> have to manually add up all the totals.  Is there some quick way to get 
> what I used to do in DOS by typing   dir /s
> Thanks,
> Ralph
> 
> 
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