du -sk

[Prashanth Waugh]

HI
suppose i m using the command like
du -kx /home | sort -nr | more
here the output will be interms of KB or byte

Thanks

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

man du
--
-k Gives the block count in 1024-byte blocks.
--
Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

-k is for KB

check out the man page for du

[Prashanth Waugh]

thanks all.

[Steven Schweda]

I'm curious. If "man du" didn't explain it
well enough, how hard would it be to run a
test on a file of known size?