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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:24:42 -0600
From:      Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To:        Jason Hunt <jhunt@blaz.homeip.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ls -h
Message-ID:  <20010129232440.B17605@northernbrewer.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A764AFF.ECCAC2E6@blaz.niinet.net>; from jhunt@blaz.homeip.net on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:02:55PM -0600
References:  <3A764AFF.ECCAC2E6@blaz.niinet.net>

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Jason Hunt (jhunt@blaz.homeip.net) wrote:

> I work with large files a lot, and I need the information usually very
> quickly on how large the files are.  ls -h use to put this information
> in human format when I was on a linux machine, is there such an 
> animal or a way to obtain that sort of information in freebsd?

du -h -d0 * will display the contents of the working directory in 'human
readable' format.

du recurses into directories as well. 

man 1 du

-- 
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com


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