Re: [ProgSoc] ls

[Vik <vlrajews@nospam.acs.itd.uts.edu.au>]

> > du -s dirname
> 
> Yeah .. gives ya the number of blocks in the directory ... but
> what if the block (i-nodes or whatever they called) size isn't
> 512 bytes?
> 
> I've always wanted a little program for Unix that counts up the
> bytes .. wow ... I therefore conclude that DOS is light years
> ahead of any Unixy system =)
> 

a quick look at `man du` shows that man -k gives sizes in 1024 byte blocks
(i.e. in kilobytes)

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Victor Rajewski
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`Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he
will pick himself up and continue on'
           - Winston Churchill, British statesman and writer (1874-1965)



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