Directory size

[Snyder, Alexander J]

Sometimes helping people is one-sided. It's really excellent to hear from
you on these things, and to see how much you've learned over the years.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks,
Alexander.

Sent from my Samsung S20+ 5G

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 12:07 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> I tell ya; I am so excited.
> I was going to write a message to ya' all asking how to tell the a
> directories size. Then my mind starte t a-whirl. I thought:
>
> free
> No..... That's a memory thing. Then I thought:
>
> df
> Maybe. It shows the size of the disk. Let's throw a directory onto
> thend of it....
> df -h ./Documents
> No. Same output.
>
> Then I thought:
>
> du
> the out put turns into a list of files.
> Maybe let's throw a directory onto the end.
> du -h ./Documents
> Hot digity dog! That was it. And I didn't need to bug you guys!
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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