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Goh Cheng Chuan
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‎08-31-2000 02:41 AM

‎08-31-2000 02:41 AM

Unix Command

Need to know the command to list the total file size of a directory for planning of backup.
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Manuel Plaza
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‎08-31-2000 02:44 AM

‎08-31-2000 02:44 AM

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Re: Unix Command

Hi,
With "du -sk" you can see the total size of directory tree in Kbytes.
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Alex Glennie
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‎08-31-2000 02:46 AM

‎08-31-2000 02:46 AM

Re: Unix Command

could try ll -d or use additional command line options as detailed under man ll ?
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Victor BERRIDGE
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‎08-31-2000 03:10 AM

‎08-31-2000 03:10 AM

Re: Unix Command

Yep
du -ks is what you need, and if you wish to du all directories from a point:
du -sk $(ll|grep "^d"|cut -c58-90)

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