[TAG] 2-cent tip: Summing up file sizes

Neil Youngman ny at youngman.org.uk
Sun Jul 15 13:02:45 MSD 2007


On or around Saturday 14 July 2007 23:28, Ben Okopnik reorganised a bunch of 
electrons to form the message:
> Were you getting the directory sizes before? That's why I've been adding
> '-S' into the mix.

You shouldn't be seeing directory sizes from du unless you're passing it 
parameters.

I get the exact same output for 'du -Sbc *.txt' as I do for 'du -bc *.txt'

Neil




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