[plug] directory listing

[Alex Nordstrom]

Monday, 10 April 2006 13:55, Jonathan Young wrote:
> On 4/10/2006, "Alex Nordstrom" <lx at se.linux.org> wrote:
> >ls -d /shared/*/
> >
> >ls -l | grep ^d
> >
>
> Both very useful.  How do you get a list of files sizes as well?
>
> I.e., if I start in /etc and type ls -l I get lots of useful
> information and can see the size of certain files.  If I want to know
> how much space required to backup /etc/* including sub-directories,
> how do I get the bottom line figures?

For that you would have to use du. See man 1 du

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Alex Nordstrom
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