[plug] Console command to get size of a dir

[Paul Dean]

Hya,

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Richard 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 -hs ./*", this will give you a summary of the dir sizes
including current.

"man du" is your friend

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