Simple Question

[uadmin]

Hi
This is really simple i geuss when in directory you do a du -s and the size of the file comes back as "1662172" what is the format to convert to megs.

Is it the case of dividing by a 1024.

Regrads
Simon Simon Peter Wickham
Email: s.wickham@zoom.co.uk

 

[trunix]

The default is 512 byte blocks so to convert to megs, you need to divide by 2000. However most unix flavours have a du -sk option which returns the output in kilobytes, so if you need megabytes, just drop the last three characters

e.g
du -s returns 10000 blocks
du -sk would return 5000 k
both of which equate to 5 megs

 

[uadmin]

Thank you for the help.

Regards
Simon Simon Peter Wickham
Email: s.wickham@zoom.co.uk