Re: [TCLUG:1777] directory sizes

[Andrew McCulloh <mcculloh@2z.net>]

>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com> writes:

    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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