try du man du
for example to see whats taking up all the space on my system cd / du --max-depth=1|sort -n I think there are also options in ls to give this sort of thing man ls > Hi, > I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the > combined size of a number of files. > Like the dos dir command gives: 34 files, 390kb. > I want to know the size of a directory, with all its files, and sub-dirs if > applicable. > Must be some piping and grepping out of the ls command. > could some one help? > Thanks > > Gerard van Antwerpen > BE mech., MIPENZ, Reg.223986 > Design Engineer, QA Manager > Cuddon Ltd. > Blenheim, NZ -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
