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Old 03-21-2012
Command to list our directory size
Is there any command that can list out all the files size including directory in 1 command？
`ls` will only give 2048 for a directory, which i'm looking for the actual size.
# 2  
Old 03-21-2012
Code:
 
du -h directoryname | awk '{a=$1}END{print a}'

# 3  
Old 03-21-2012
Code:
 
#du -sh <dirname>

is enough I guess..


Illustration:-

Code:
 
#ls -ld zones
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         512 Mar  4  2009 zones
# du -sh zones
  14G   zones

# 4  
Old 03-21-2012
Code:
du -ah directoryName

# 5  
Old 03-22-2012
is there something like ls -l which list out all the information as well?
Last edited by lsy; 03-22-2012 at 04:41 AM..
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Old 03-22-2012
Quote:
'du' seems like cannot support a path.
eg: du -ah /tmp/abc
use
Code:
du -ah ./tmp/abc

 
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