On 5/30/24 18:54, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 06:51:30PM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote:
It looks like "tree --du" should do it, but "tree -d --du -h" says
├── [452K] Documents
when du says it's 787M.
Well, that sounds like one of the numbers includes subdirectories and
the other only includes files in the immediate directory.
From du(1):
--du For each directory report its size as the accumulation of
sizes of all its files and sub-directories (and their files,
and so on). The total amount of used space is also given in
the final report (like the 'du -c' command.) This option
requires tree to read the entire directory tree before
emitting it, see BUGS AND NOTES below. Implies -s.
OK, now for "du -c". From du(1):
-c, --total
produce a grand total
Well, that doesn't help much.
The question is: which one do you want?
I'd like the size of the entire tree, and I think that's what OP wants too.
I think "du -h -S -s Documents/" gives just the files in Documents, and not
its subdirectories, and it gives 269M. "ls -ldh Documents/" says the
directory itsely takes up 36k, so I'm not sure where "tree" got that number.
