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file/folder size?

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:43 pm
by Red Squirrel
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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file/folder size?

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:39 am
by megaspaz
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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file/folder size?

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:07 pm
by Red Squirrel
Great that's useful.

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