hi,
i have a selection of directories on a filesystem and i want to know the total size of the lot of them.
I can list the contence of them with:
find /mystuff/*/*/work/*/prog/images/
but how do i get there total size?
thanks for any help
check if this is what you want:
du -sk /path/to/dir
man du for details
yes i know that.
its not one directory, its hundreds. i want the total size of all of them together.
ok,
this is how i did it:
du -sk /mystuff/*/*/work/*/prog/images | awk '{total = total + $1;} END {print total}'
though im guessing there is an easyier way
Do you not have the -c option for du which is "Display a grand total"?? I would also use the -h option for more readability.
du -ch /mystuff/*/*/work/*/prog/images
Cheers,
Nate