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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

some CLI help please: ls and folder sizes + du and hidden files

Hello all,

I have two questions, any help would be appreciated:

1) Is there a way to make "ls -l" to show the 'real', total size of the folders (that is incl all files and subfolders recursively)?
I have looked the man page and I believe that there isn't, but just to make sure I'm not missing something..

2)Is there a way to tell du to ommit hidden files?

Thanks a lot in advance..

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: some CLI help please: ls and folder sizes + du and hidden files

* glob skips hidden files by default
du -sh *

arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

Posts: 516

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Re: some CLI help please: ls and folder sizes + du and hidden files

* glob skips hidden files by default
du -sh *

shopt -s dotglob

*runs*

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sirocco

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Registered: 2008-03-10

Posts: 149

Re: some CLI help please: ls and folder sizes + du and hidden files

try ncdu

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: some CLI help please: ls and folder sizes + du and hidden files

shopt -s dotglob

shopt -s dotglob will turn this on (so you will scan hidden folders)
shopt -u dotglob will turn it off

geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 309

Re: some CLI help please: ls and folder sizes + du and hidden files

* glob skips hidden files by default
du -sh *

Thanks a lot!! That did the job!

@sirocco Thanks for the suggestion, I already know and use ncdu, and I love it!
I just want something quicker when I browse things quickly.