Quick ls question

[Chaotic42]

All 8 cylinders aren't firing today, and I can't seem to find it in the man page.

How do I list the total size of a directory and all of it's contents

like

/etc- 1024123 bytes

with ls?

Sorry,
Chris

 

[dayg]

huh?

 

[Nothinman]

AFAIK ls won't do that. You want du.

 

[Chaotic42]

I want to know the size of everything in the /etc directory added together.

🙂

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
AFAIK ls won't do that. You want du.

Duh. That was it. Thanks 😉