Re: [TCLUG:1777] directory sizes

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

> you can use -s to create summery's.

If I type 'du -s *' I get what I want except it includes all the files in
the directory I'm in when I run du. Is there a way (I didn't see this
in the man page) to tell it to ignore files in the current directory and
just count file under the directories?

Thanks,

Ben 


> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Ben Luey wrote:
> 
> > 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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