On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:24, Evan McNabb wrote:
> > I could write a recursive algorithm that excludes it, but I remember 
> > some 2 letter linux command that gives the size of the files in a 
> > directory and all its subdirectories.  What was that?
> 
> I think 'du -sh /path/to/directory' is what you're looking for.

This is true if what you want is to know how much disk it's using (which
is technically what you asked), but you should know that disk usage and
file size are different things.


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