Hi,

I would really appreciate if you could help me with this. I have a directory structure like this :-
/data
Under data i have directories /data1 , /input_files , /output_files etc . Under these directories I have other subdirectories.

What i am looking for is to find out the size of all the directories under /data.

for example, if i do du -s /data/data1, i get : -
du -s /data/data1
2 /data/data1

I am looking for somtihng which will give me size of all the directories in /data.

Thanks in advance

Try this:

ls -lR | egrep '^d|^-' | awk '{ sum=sum+$5; }END{print sum}'

I think you can use du command combined with -s option
man du

I solved this problem so many times I finally wrote a real script, it allows summing of the directory content sizes down to level N:

http://www.theneills.org/src/scripts/bigdu.ksh

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Qman

For the grand total use:
If you need the size of each directory under data use find:

Thanks a lot guys. I kind of figured it out. This is what i did

for i in `ls -F | grep '/$'` ; do
du -s `echo "/data/$i"`
done

This gives the required result