[plug] Console command to get size of a dir

[Richard]

On Monday 22 April 2002 8:04 am, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> > 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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Works a treat! Many thanks :)