[plug] Console command to get size of a dir

[Russell Keith-Magee]

> I feel a bit silly asking this, but I can't find a command that
> gives me the
> total size of a directory (including of all files/sub dir's),
> could anyone
> help?

Try du (disk usage).

e.g., du -h will give the "human readable" size of all directories; the very
last line it prints yields the total space taken up by the current
directory, and all subdirs.

Russ %-)

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