--howdy: --maybe i'm not following this, but, are you saying 'du -sk /directory' doesn't do what you want?
--grant it, this is a perl mail list, but does things really have to be that complicated? -X I don't reach understand how I could obtain the size of a given directory and all the sub-directory.. Is there a function doing that ? or Is somebody have a sub doing that ? --er, i don't follow. you do a long listing of a directory (or, entire filesystem structure) and you get 512 ... should you *not* get this? what exactly are you expecting ... --also, how are you hoping to solve this with perl? perhaps this isn't the mail list you want to ask questions in ... (i could be wrong, you know ...) Another question : What is the meanning of this 512 bytes for a directory when I do a LL on my unix system ? -X
