Paging Matthew Seaman

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:03:18AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:30:00 -0600
> Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
> 
> > >> > ...

> > >>
> > >> Nope.  You understood.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks to everyone that responded.  I'll tweak the suggestions
> > >> until I get what I want or some near equivalent of it.
> > >
> > > I may be missing what you want, but I try CDing to the directory
> > > and then doing the du -hs *    eg
> > >   cd /tmp
> > >   du -hs *
> > >
> > > It seems to get it when naming the directory doesn't.
> > >
> > 
> > Thanks, Jerry.  This turns out to be quite useful - actually a better
> > solution than what I had in mind.
> > 
> No need to cd. 
> 
> du -hs /tmp/*

Same difference I guess.   Just easier to remember to cd, plus
most of the time I need to get in to that directory anyway for
whatever reason I am doing the du in it.

////jerry

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