Re: [TCLUG:1777] directory sizes

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

Is there a way to get du to count the size all subdirectories as one
entity. I'd like to see a list of only the next level directories with the
size of the these directories and all of their subdirectories.

Thanks,
ben

> 
>     Nate> Try 'du'.  -Nate Carlson The Infinite Loop
>     Nate> natecars@infiniteloop.com
> 
> 
> And if you want to sort the directories (this will put the largest
> last):
> 
> 	du | sort -n 
> 
> (if you want that is largest to smallest: du | sort -rn)
> 
> This can take a while. One problem with du is that it can only show
> the size of either the entire dirctory tree below the path it is given 
> or the size of items in the current directory. So if you only want
> things one or two directories deep you need to look elsewhere. find is 
> good for this or you could pipe the results of du to a perl/awk script.
> 
> Andrew
> 
>     Nate> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Ben Luey wrote:
> 
>     >> How can I find out the size of a directory and all its
>     >> subdirectories? Is there a way to do a ls that will sort all
>     >> directories by size (only showing the next level directories
>     >> and the size including subdirectories)?
>     >> 
>     >> Thanks,
>     >> 
>     >> Ben
>     >> 
>     >> Ben Luey lueyb@carleton.edu ICQ: 19144397
>     >> 
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