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Goh Cheng Chuan
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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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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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Re: Unix Command

could try ll -d or use additional command line options as detailed under man ll ?
Victor BERRIDGE
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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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