[wplug] Tracking directory sizes

Keir Josephson keir at pastadish.com
Thu Sep 23 11:26:53 EDT 2004


You could try:

du -ks *

That would give you a summary of the file sizes for each file & directory
in your current path (the -k just puts the numbers in kilobytes).

-Keir

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Michael M Delaney wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good program for checking the sizes of directories
> and subdirectories?  du gives me everything at once, I rembember reading
> in the man file that there should be a way to get it to give only the top
> level, but I also rembember it not working for me.
> 
> At home, I've been using a program called FSV that shows the tree size in
> OpenGL, but it has issues on my laptop and the GLX setup.
> 
> Anyone know how to get du to just give me the size of all the directories
> from wherever I'm starting without displaying the individual sizes of
> every subdirectory, or of another good program to do the same?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
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