How find size of directory

Hi,
How can find the size of the directory. If the directory has 1000 files. I want the total size of directory including all the files. the bdf command is just able to give only the volume size. It is not heling my cause.

Not sure if this is available to all Unix platforms, but try `du -k` and `man du` for further info.

Hope it helps.

Cam Young is right....

wants big files to be listed under that directory
Then try this command 'du -sk *|sort -nr |more
should serve the purpose.
Hope this helps.