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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Display directory size Post 302261068 by radoulov on Sunday 23rd of November 2008 09:35:21 AM
Old 11-23-2008
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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BGOFFICE-DICT-DOWNLOAD(1)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 BGOFFICE-DICT-DOWNLOAD(1)

NAME

       bgoffice-dict-download - download dictionaries for bgoffice

SYNOPSIS

	   # list known dictionaries
	   bgoffice-dict-download --list

	   # download a dictionary
	   bgoffice-dict-download --dict bg-en_dual

	   # explicit output file
	   bgoffice-dict-download --dict bg-en_dual --output=/some/where.tar.bz2

DESCRIPTION

       bgoffice-dict-download is a small program to help download bgoffice dictionaries off sourceforge.net. It browses the bgoffice project
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       The dictionary is downloaded in the current directory, unless the "--output" option is used.

OPTIONS

       --list
	   Prints the list of the known dictionaries.

       --dict dictionary name
	   Specifies the dictionary to be downloaded. See "--list" for the known dictionaries. This option is mandatory, unless "--list" is given.

       --output file
	   Saves the downloaded dictionary in the given file, instead of ./<dict>.tar.bz2

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       Permission is granted to use this work, with or without modifications, provided that this notice is retained. If we meet some day, and you
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