1 Oct
2004
1 Oct
'04
17:56
Steve, On Friday 01 October 2004 10:37, steve-ss wrote:
I want to see the size of a directory. That's the directory and all its contents as a single number of bytes. It seems quite basic but man, info and google/linux have given me nothing. Is it possible?
Flatly impossible, of course. And when you follow everyone's advice about using the "du" command, be sure to keep in mind that be default it reports in units of 1024-byte blocks. There are many options for changing this, including the ability to report the number of bytes directly (by telling it to report the number of one-byte "blocks"). "man du" for all the details, of course. Randall Schulz