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From: zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>
Subject:  Just size of directory & any contents
Date:  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:31:16 +0100
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Hi,
I was still using WinEXP for this until recently

# just display total size of current directory & contents in human readable
du -sh .

# same thing but exclude pdfs

du -sh somedir --exclude '*.pdf'

Any more tricks?

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zzapper
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