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Old 11-29-2005
How find size of directory

Hi,
How can find the size of the directory. If the directory has 1000 files. I want the total size of directory including all the files. the bdf command is just able to give only the volume size. It is not heling my cause.
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Old 11-29-2005
Not sure if this is available to all Unix platforms, but try `du -k` and `man du` for further info.

Hope it helps.
# 3  
Old 12-07-2005
Cam Young is right....

wants big files to be listed under that directory
Then try this command 'du -sk *|sort -nr |more
should serve the purpose.
Hope this helps.

Last edited by catwomen; 12-07-2005 at 09:19 PM..
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