>Maybe the -d option better suits your case then? > $ du -xchd 1 ~
Yes, that is nice. Thanks! (So many options; so little time to learn them all...) >Arguably, this doesn't skip "dot" files and directories, as the usual shell >globbing with '*' does. True, but I think I can live with that. I suppose something like '--exclude=.*' might help. >Have a nice day. Quite so. ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary. Note that they always end up in my Spam file anyway, so it is annoying to have to periodically clean that out.