Re: Obtaining the size of a directory

FROM : Freek Dijkstra
DATE : Mon Oct 18 16:49:46 2004

On 18-10-2004 13:49, "Dominik Freyer" <<email_removed>> wrote:

> In the meantime I found a BSD Command 'du -hs' which can give me very
> fast the correct directory size.


Yes, though you may want to use 'du -ks' rather then -h to get machine
interpretable output. See man page for details.

By the way: I think du also just traverse the directories recursively, but
apparantly is very fast in doing so.

Regards,
Freek