I know this is a very basic question, but I searched the web and did not find a simple answer. I'm sure it's some kind of two or three letter command, right?
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du -s directory, as in "disk usage, sum"
Use du -sk to show the size in kilobytes (default is to show number of 512-byte blocks), or du -sh for a more human-friendly output. For more options, type man du.
answered Mar 10, 2012 at 18:43
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Actually I wanted 'du -s -b' so the size is in bytes. I don't know why the default is kilobytes without a 'kb' but it wasn't a convincing answer! ;D– LangelMar 10, 2012 at 19:02
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7You can use
-hflag for 'human readable', this makes automatic conversion in KB, MB, ect. Mar 10, 2012 at 19:14 -
This is the same as -s, but replace 0 with 1 and you can get just the content in the folder:
du -h -d 0 /path/to/file
If you want the whole volume, you should use df instead of du (path is optional):
df -H /
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