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Old 11-23-2008
Display directory size

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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NcdT(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   NcdT(1)

NAME
ncdt - directory tree printer with extended capabilities SYNOPSIS
ncdt [-db?] [--dirs] [--bitrate] [--prefix text ] [--help] [ directory [ name ]] DESCRIPTION
ncdt is a small utility for printing directory trees. It has some additional features not found in tree(1). Additional capabilities are: - size field for directories displays the summary size of directory subtree instead of the size of the special file (which is somewhat more useful) - sizes are displayed in a more readable format (that's a minor improvement, but it helps a little) - MP3 files are detected; additional info is displayed for them (which is probably the nicest thing about NcdT) The info is displayed in a compact form, like <2:53 v168JR+> where 2:53 is play time, v (if present) means the file is encoded using VBR, 168 is bitrate (average bitrate for VBR files), J describes channel encoding (Mono, Stereo, Joint-Stereo, Dual channel), R (if present) means the file has a RIFF header at the beginning, + (if present) means the file has ID3v2 tag attached - (if present) means there's no ID3 tag at all (none of these means there's only ID3v1 tag present). NcdT is particularily nice for indexing CDs. OPTIONS
-d --dirs Print only directories, omit files. This mode is a rough equivalent of du(1). -b --bitrate Print bitrate info for directories. Bitrates are displayed both for ordinary files and directories. If all MP3 files in a given directory subtree have the same bitrate only one number is printed, if they have various bitrates the range is printed. --prefix text Prefix listing with given text. This option is not intended for general use. It might be used by programs using NcdT to index CDsor doing similar operations to record additional information. -? --help Display usage summary. USAGE
When called without any parameters ncdt displays directory tree for current directory (.). When called with one parameter ncdt displays directory tree for specified directory. When called with two parameters ncdt displays directory tree for the directory specified as its first parameter. Second parameter is used as directory label for the top level directory (instead of directory name from parameter 1). EXAMPLES
ncdt prints directory tree for the current directory. It will be labeled . ncdt /usr prints directory tree of /usr. It will be labeled /usr ncdt /cdrom 'CD #21' prints directory tree of /cdrom. It will be labeled CD #21 ncdt -db /cdrom lists directory sizes, play times and bitrate ranges SEE ALSO
tree(1), du(1) BUGS
NcdT uses quite a lot of memory. It's also not very fast, but on a decent CPU it should not be noticeable. There are no real bugs I'm aware of. I don't think there are any now. AUTHOR
Pawel Wiecek <coven@vmh.net> NcdT(1)
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