From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 21:24:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seward.nbrewer.com (nbrewer.dsl.visi.com [208.42.141.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A9337B69C for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:24:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by seward.nbrewer.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0U5Og918401; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:24:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:24:42 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Jason Hunt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ls -h Message-ID: <20010129232440.B17605@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Jason Hunt , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3A764AFF.ECCAC2E6@blaz.niinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A764AFF.ECCAC2E6@blaz.niinet.net>; from jhunt@blaz.homeip.net on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:02:55PM -0600 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message