Directory size?

[javaguy]

Is there a quick/easy command that a shell script can use to find the total size of the files in a directory?

[ramfree17]

play with the various options available to du (disk usage) and see if it fills your requirements.

 

ciao!

[AussieJohn]

Try .....filelight.... excellent visual presentation and in depth detail of file sizes. Also shows percentages. Invaluable.

 

I always install it, and have done for years.

 

Cheers. John.

Edited May 26, 2008 by AussieJohn

[ianw1974]

From the console I use:

 

du -sh `ls`

 

for example, if I was in /home/username at the time, I would see the total size for Documents, Downloads, Music, etc, etc. The -sh for du command gives summary and human readable format of directory sizes from the directory listing provided by the command ls. The single angled quote is important.

[ac_dispatcher]

Ah yes the famous "ducks" command I read long ago in a book:

 

du -cks * |sort -rn |head -n 11

[pmpatrick]

Here's a bash script I either wrote or picked up somewhere a long time ago that will give the directory size in bytes of the current directory:

 

#!/bin/bash

## Script gives size of current directory in Bytes when executed

let TotalBytes=0

for Bytes in $(ls -laR | grep "^-" | awk '{ print $5 }')
do
  let TotalBytes=$TotalBytes+$Bytes
done

echo  "${TotalBytes}"