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Is there a way to tell how much hard disk space a file or folder(and subfolders etc..) uses through the command line? Would be useful to know when doing file management through ssh or what not.

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Red Squirrel wrote: Is there a way to tell how much hard disk space a file or folder(and subfolders etc..) uses through the command line?  Would be useful to know when doing file management through ssh or what not.
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Great that's useful.

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