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# 15  
Old 02-28-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by redbeard_06
But it did'n return the subdirectories?
Depending your Unix version use "du -ok" if it supports the "-o" option.
# 16  
Old 02-28-2007
i use Ubuntu and it does not support this command

du: invalid option -- o
Try `du --help' for more information.
# 17  
Old 02-28-2007
Use this to get size directory wise recursively

find . -type d | xargs du -sk
# 18  
Old 02-28-2007
Thank you very much Smilie
# 19  
Old 03-01-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by gopidesaboyina
Use this to get size directory wise recursively

find . -type d | xargs du -sk
Yes you can use this.
# 20  
Old 08-08-2008
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May be this helps you .

Used to find directory sizes.... give dir. size in MB:

Code:
for i in `ls -lrt | awk '{print $9}'`; do du -ks $i  | awk '{printf "%8.2f %s\n",$1/1024,$2}'; done

EXAMPLE:
Code:
# ls -lrt
total 22
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       root            96 Sep 30  2005 lost+found
drwxrwxrwt   2 bin        bin             96 Sep 30  2005 home
dr-xr-xr-x   4 bin        bin             96 Sep 30  2005 obam
dr-xr-xr-x   2 bin        bin             96 Sep 30  2005 parmgr
dr-xr-xr-x   4 bin        bin             96 Sep 30  2005 vx
drwxr-xr-x   5 root       other           96 Sep 30  2005 stm
drwxr-xr-x   3 bin        bin             96 Sep 30  2005 X11
drwxrwxrwx   2 bin        bin             96 Sep 30  2005 news
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin        bin           1024 Sep 30  2005 yp
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin        bin             96 Sep 30  2005 rbootd
drwxr-xr-x   3 root       sys             96 Sep 30  2005 dt
dr-xr-xr-x   6 bin        bin             96 Sep 30  2005 uucp
dr-xr-xr-x  12 bin        bin           1024 Sep 30  2005 spool
dr-xr-xr-x  19 bin        bin           1024 Oct 26  2006 opt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Sep 11  2007 empty
drwxrwxrwx   2 bin        bin             96 Nov 29  2007 preserve
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             19 Mar 17 17:36 symapi -> /usr/emc/API/symapi
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       root          1024 Jun 13 12:20 ECC
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       sys             96 Jun 20 12:02 emc
dr-xr-xr-x   9 bin        bin           1024 Jul  6 18:58 sam
drwxr-xr-x   2 root       root          1024 Jul  6 19:01 tombstones
dr-xr-xr-x   7 root       sys           1024 Aug  1 01:04 PSS
drwxrwxr-x   2 bin        mail          1024 Aug  6 00:12 mail
dr-xr-xr-x   3 bin        bin           1024 Aug  7 23:59 run
drwxr-xr-x  12 adm        adm           1024 Aug  8 08:47 adm
drwxrwxrwt  10 bin        bin           1024 Aug  8 10:06 tmp
eux181{root}#
eux181{root}# for i in `ls -lrt | awk '{print $9}'`; do du -ks $i  | awk '{printf "%8.2f %s\n",$1/1024,$2}'; done | sort -2
    0.00 ECC
    0.00 X11
    0.00 dt
    0.00 emc
    0.00 empty
    0.00 home
    0.00 lost+found
    0.00 news
    0.00 obam
    0.00 parmgr
    0.00 preserve
    0.00 rbootd
    0.00 run
    0.00 symapi
    0.00 uucp
    0.04 yp
    0.06 vx
    0.14 tmp
    0.38 spool
    0.73 mail
    1.27 sam
    3.47 tombstones
   11.95 PSS
   21.79 stm
 1842.21 adm
 3905.45 opt
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