aru Posted April 17, 2003 Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 (edited) Browse: [About the FAQ Forum] [Table of Contents] [FAQs] [Contribute] [CL: Command Line questions] CL-03: What is the size of a directory? The command you are looking for is "du"; For example, how to estimate the size of my home directory: arusabal@mandrakeusers ~$ du -hs /home/arusabal 318M /home/arusabal arusabal@mandrakeusers ~$ References: How to get total size of directory in shell? man du man df man ls [PREV: "CL-02: How do I move/rename a file from the command line?"] [NEXT: "CL-04: How can I use shortcuts in the command line?"] Edited August 7, 2005 by ramfree17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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