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From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Quick Directory Size
Summary: ST Unix Tool Kit has one
Keywords: HELP PLEASE TOS
Message-ID: <312@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 22 Mar 89 11:16:18 GMT
References: <305@hydra.gatech.EDU> <975@philmds.UUCP>
Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France
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In article <975@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
| In article <305@hydra.gatech.EDU> iadt2tg@prism.gatech.EDU (Terry O. Greenlaw) writes:
| |What is the quickest way to find out the total byte size of all files
| |in the current subdirectory? I need the size to do the equivalent of
| |a "ls -l", and I'd rather not add up the individual file sizes. 
| 
| I wrote once a UNIX style du; du -s gives you the number of blocks used
| by all files in the current directory (recursively); du -a gives the
| block usage for each file individually too. If that's what you want I
| could check it out and submit it to the sources / binaries groups.

I believe that the ST Unix ToolKit already has an implementation of du
available.  It was posted to the binaries group and is available on
ssyx.
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