[ale] How to list directory sizes?

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	Assume that user 'charles' is at /home/charles ....

	cd /home && du -sk * | sort -n

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Charles Marcus wrote:

#None of these work for me...
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#I simply want to be able to list all the home directories, and see how big
#each one is...
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#-----Original Message-----
#From: Matt Shade [mailto:mshade at threekay.com]
#Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:43 PM
#To: Charles Marcus; Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
#Subject: Re: [ale] How to list directory sizes?
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#If you just want to see the sizes of all directories in a tree, try:
#du
#du -k  <- shows it in kilobytes
#du -m  <- shows it in megabytes
#du -s  <- summarizes the whole tree
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#type du --help to see what else you can get.
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#Matt
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#> I've looked, and can't seem to find how to do this - I know it must be
#> simple...
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#> How can I get the size of the directories in an ls listing?
#>
#> Thanks
#>
#> Charles
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