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CHris Rich wrote:

>I want to use the du command to check on the sizes of files in a
>directory, but i want the output to be put into a text file so I can
>look at it later.
>
>I did some search on google, and found nothing that applied.
>Searched other places (lists and things) and couldn't find what i was
>looking for, perhaps i was using the wrong search terms.
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated
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>Thanks
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Hi.
Maybe
du -h > filename
is what you are looking for ?

Regards
Hasse Hansson.