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Hi all,

Is there any built in function that can display the content of a directory showing the size of directories?
I want to see the content of a directory without recursion. I don't want to see the content of all subdirectories.
I want to see the contained files with their size and the contained directories with their total size (including everything they contain).

1) I cannot get ls to do that.
2) With du, I can only get either the total size of one directory or the total size of all subdirectories (even several levels under).

Thanks in advance
Santiago

Here is an example of a directory tree with what I get with ls, then what I get with du and finally what I'd like to get:
Code:
~$ ls -lR
.:
-rw-r--r-- 1 santiago santiago   88 2008-11-23 10:34 file
drwxr-xr-x 4 santiago santiago 4096 2008-11-23 10:34 folderA
drwxr-xr-x 2 santiago santiago 4096 2008-11-23 10:35 folderB

./folderA:
-rw-r--r-- 1 santiago santiago   31 2008-11-23 10:34 fileA
drwxr-xr-x 2 santiago santiago 4096 2008-11-23 10:34 folderC
drwxr-xr-x 2 santiago santiago 4096 2008-11-23 10:34 folderD

./folderA/folderC:
-rw-r--r-- 1 santiago santiago  269 2008-11-23 10:34 fileC

./folderA/folderD:
-rw-r--r-- 1 santiago santiago  509 2008-11-23 10:34 fileD

./folderB:
-rw-r--r-- 1 santiago santiago  623 2008-11-23 10:35 fileB

~$ du
623    ./folderB
269    ./folderA/folderC
509    ./folderA/folderD
809    ./folderA
1520   .

~$ whatidlike
file       88
folderA   809
folderB   623
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Did you try:

Code:
du -s <glob>
For example:

Code:
$ ls -l
total 10220
drwxr-xr-x+  7 sysadmin None       0 Nov  3 13:30 ast
drwxr-xr-x+  2 sysadmin None       0 Nov  3 11:56 nawk
drwxr-xr-x+ 13 sysadmin None       0 Nov  3 11:26 zsh-4.3.8
-rwx------+  1 sysadmin None 2570984 Nov  3 11:15 zsh-4.3.8-doc.tar.bz2
-rwx------+  1 sysadmin None 2656376 Nov  3 11:15 zsh-4.3.8.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x+ 13 sysadmin None       0 Nov  3 13:23 zsh-4.3.9
-rw-r--r--   1 sysadmin None 2570995 Nov  3 13:15 zsh-4.3.9-doc.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 sysadmin None 2659602 Nov  3 13:17 zsh-4.3.9.tar.bz2
$ du -ks *
138639  ast
1331    nawk
26518   zsh-4.3.8
2512    zsh-4.3.8-doc.tar.bz2
2596    zsh-4.3.8.tar.bz2
26534   zsh-4.3.9
2512    zsh-4.3.9-doc.tar.bz2
2600    zsh-4.3.9.tar.bz2
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great job.
thank you.
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Did you try:

Code:
du -s <glob>
For example:

Code:
$ ls -l
total 10220
drwxr-xr-x+  7 sysadmin None       0 Nov  3 13:30 ast
drwxr-xr-x+  2 sysadmin None       0 Nov  3 11:56 nawk
drwxr-xr-x+ 13 sysadmin None       0 Nov  3 11:26 zsh-4.3.8
-rwx------+  1 sysadmin None 2570984 Nov  3 11:15 zsh-4.3.8-doc.tar.bz2
-rwx------+  1 sysadmin None 2656376 Nov  3 11:15 zsh-4.3.8.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x+ 13 sysadmin None       0 Nov  3 13:23 zsh-4.3.9
-rw-r--r--   1 sysadmin None 2570995 Nov  3 13:15 zsh-4.3.9-doc.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 sysadmin None 2659602 Nov  3 13:17 zsh-4.3.9.tar.bz2
$ du -ks *
138639  ast
1331    nawk
26518   zsh-4.3.8
2512    zsh-4.3.8-doc.tar.bz2
2596    zsh-4.3.8.tar.bz2
26534   zsh-4.3.9
2512    zsh-4.3.9-doc.tar.bz2
2600    zsh-4.3.9.tar.bz2

You can also use :

#du -sh *

it will give you batter o/p...
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it will give you batter o/p...
Thanks Reboot,
What is o/p?

Actually, I don't like the switch h because it makes it impossible to visually compare sizes.
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You can also use :

#du -sh *

it will give you batter o/p...
... if your implementation of du supports it:

Code:
$ du -hs *
du: illegal option -- h
usage: du [-a][-d][-k][-r][-o|-s][-L] [file ...]
/usr/ccs/bin/what /usr/bin/du
/usr/bin/du:
        SunOS 5.8 Generic 109803-01 June 2000
$ /usr/xpg4/bin/du -hs
/usr/xpg4/bin/du: illegal option -- h
usage: du [-a][-k][-r][-s][-x] [file ...]
or:

Code:
$ du -hs *
du: illegal option -- h
usage: du [-a|-s] [-kbrx] [-t type] [name ...]
$ what /usr/bin/du
/usr/bin/du:
         $Revision: B.11.11_LR
         Thu Oct 26 23:49:27 PDT 2000 $
Quote:
What is o/p?
output, I suppose ...
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