Re: combined file sizes info , how ?

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Zane!! You are alive. ;) I was beginnin to wonder....hehe.

Zane Gilmore wrote:
> du -h dir-name
> 
> where dir-name is the path of the directory.
> -h just gives sizes in human readable form.
> du stands for "disk usage" I think.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 10:53, Gerard van Antwerpen wrote:
> 
>>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
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