How to know total number of bytes of a directory
DAve
dave.list at pixelhammer.com
Mon Dec 17 06:09:45 PST 2007
Andy Greenwood wrote:
> DSA - JCR wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its
>> related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any
>> command for knowning it.
>>
>
> # du -s /etc
> 17008 /etc
>
> You need read privs to all the subdirectories, otherwise you'll get
> permission errors and it'll skip those. Note that this displays usage in
> 512-byte blocks, not bytes, but you should be able to figure it out from
> there.
-h provides human readable output.
du -sh /etc
3.8M /etc
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