[plug] directory listing

[Margaret Wood]

Have a look at  du

Margaret

On 10/04/06, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/10/2006, "Alex Nordstrom" <lx at se.linux.org> wrote:
>
> >Monday, 10 April 2006 13:29, Jon Miller wrote:
> >> After looking up the parameters for the ls command I still cannot
> >> find what I'm looking for which is a simple listing of all
> >> subdirectories starting at a certain point. I want a listing of
> >> subdirectories only in a directory called /shared. I've issue the
> >> following command ls -d and yieldednothing.
> >
> >Ah, I remember this from a first-year tutorial at Curtin.
> >
> >Try:
> >
> >ls -d /shared/*/
> >
> >What -d does is to just list all matching files (including directories).
> >If you didn't have it, ls would also proceed to list the contents of
> >any matching directories. The slash at the end will make sure only
> >directories are matched.
> >
> >For a long listing, try:
> >
> >ls -l | grep ^d
> >
> >Where ^d matches entries with 'd' (for directory) as the first character
> >on a line.
>
> 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?
>
> In DOS it would be
>
> dir /a/s
>
> with /a showing hidden files
> and /s including sib-directories
>
> As the listing goes past it includes sub-totals for each directory and
> then a total at the end.  I have never managed to get Bash to do this...
>
> - Jonathan
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