I may know a tiny bit about browsers but it's clear that I still know zilch about Linux. What, pray, is the command line -- or, gulp, even GUI -- way to get the total size of everything in a given directory tree? "size directoryname" of course tells me "directoryname: Is a directory"; while "ls -R -l" within the directory gives me a list of figures whereas I'd like a total. (I realize that because of cluster sizes -- or whatever the analogous term is in Linux/Reiserese -- there may be more than one total. I'll settle for any total.) With thanks and apologies for ignorance.
What, pray, is the command line -- or, gulp, even GUI -- way to get the total size of everything in a given directory tree? "size
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Try man du : NAME du - estimate file space usage SYNOPSIS du [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for direc tories. <snip> Hope this helps, Jason On Tuesday 01 July 2003 12:04 pm, Peter Evans wrote:
I may know a tiny bit about browsers but it's clear that I still know zilch about Linux.
What, pray, is the command line -- or, gulp, even GUI -- way to get the total size of everything in a given directory tree? "size directoryname" of course tells me "directoryname: Is a directory"; while "ls -R -l" within the directory gives me a list of figures whereas I'd like a total. (I realize that because of cluster sizes -- or whatever the analogous term is in Linux/Reiserese -- there may be more than one total. I'll settle for any total.)
With thanks and apologies for ignorance.
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