how to get size of directory

[sushb4u]

i have a problem regarding file/directory size.....i mean when i run ls -l command in linux.....i get same directory size always....like 4096....even if i put no. of files of large sizes in that directory...it gives the same size....infact it gives same size when u create new directory....is anybody there facing same problem....plz reply if u know something about this...

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

du -sk /

Regards,
Sergejs

[Balaji N]

hi
guess what you are seeing is the block size.

to see the size of a directory, use du


du -sh

here
-s is to give a summary
-h, --human-readable
print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)


hth
-balaji

[sushb4u]

hi....thanks all for help....ya i was seeing block size....thanx