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# 8  
Old 11-30-2011
Please state what Operating System and version you have. I guess it's not unix, but some Linux variant?
There is much variation in the "du" command and I personally haven't seen one behave like your Post #1 and which won't take "-hc" as a parameter.
# 9  
Old 11-30-2011
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SunOS devinf.tdbank.com 5.10 Generic_144488-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890

# 10  
Old 11-30-2011
Oracle have really messed up the Solaris manuals site.

Code:
There are two versions of "du":
/usr/bin/du
/usr/xpg4/bin/du
According to the "man" pages for Solaris 10 they both accept "-hs" .  If one doesn't work, worth trying the other one.

Possible way round this it to pipe the list (not expand the list on the command line):
ls *20101010* | du -hs

Do check that you don't have "du" aliased with parameters.
Last edited by methyl; 11-30-2011 at 02:48 PM.. Reason: Wrote rubbish
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# 11  
Old 11-30-2011
Thanks ..That works. Appreciated.Many thanks methyl
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