list directory size of recursive contents

[bobbybobbertson]

How do I list the size of all the contents of a directory?

 

[sfi]

Do a 'man ls'

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If you mean totals :

du -sh /home/joe (grand total only)

du -h /home/joe (for each subdirectory)

du -sSh /home/joe (don't count all subdirectories)

etc.

see 'man du'

Regards

 

[bobbybobbertson]

thanks ifincham,
i looked everywhere yesterday. i did do a 'man ls'. but what i was looking for does not seem possible with that. the 'du' command is what i was looking for.

my problem in finding the command was that searches for things like 'directory size list linux' gives the directories of listings of people on mailing lists when put into search engines.

thanks again

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

A tip when you are looking for man pages ..

Use the -k flag to list all manpages that use a given keyword. For example :

man -k samba

returns a list like this ....

lmhosts (5) - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
make_smbcodepage (1) - construct a codepage file for Samba
SAMBA [samba] (7) - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
smb.conf [smb] (5) - The configuration file for the Samba suite
smbpasswd (5) - The Samba encrypted password file
smbstatus (1) - report on current Samba connections
swat (8) - Samba Web Administration Tool
Samba [samba] (7) - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
lmhosts (5) - The Samba NetBIOS hosts file
make_smbcodepage (1) - Construct a codepage file for Samba
smb.conf [smb] (5) - The configuration file for the Samba suite
smbpasswd (5) - The Samba encrypted password file
smbstatus (1) - report on current Samba connections
swat (8) - Samba Web Administration Tool

You can then do 'man swat' etc. Or explicitly using the section number 'man 7 samba' .

Hope this helps