Re: tcsh total directory size?

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From: Jim Thomas
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:09

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Damon Riley wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Thanks for the help with the memory question the other day to all of you
> who replied or posted.  The new memory went in and the GIMP screams.
> 
> I telnet to a tcsh shell for Unix.  I want to know the total number of
> bytes stored in a directory but would rather not add them up by hand if
> there were an easier way.  I don't know what man page to read.
> 
> I also would like to know how to do this in Linux.  I'm running RHL 7.1.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Damon

du -s .

gives the size of the current directory.

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