How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories
Vikram Goyal
vikigoyal at gmail.com
Sun Mar 18 08:14:10 UTC 2007
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:01:38PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> This is a silly question perhaps. I have my soundfiles in a directory named
> Sounds Library, this contains many subdirectories, which contain the .wav
> files.
>
> What command can I use to find out the disk space this directory is taking up,
> including all the files that are in the subdirectories?
>
> Nigel.
>
I wrote this a long time back for myself. It might suffice your needs.
Cut paste the following code in a file say: dirsize, chmod +x dirsize
and execute.
#-CUT & PASTE---------------------------------------------------------
#/bin/bash
IGNORE='proc /dev /sys /initrd /mnt /media'
# This script produces a list of dir size. Selects only MB and above entries.
# Arg is the dir name else pwd is selected
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
SDIR=`pwd`
OutPut=/tmp`pwd`
else
SDIR=$1
OutPut=/tmp/${USER}/${1}
fi
echo "Output file is ${OutPut}/dir-size.out"
mkdirhier ${OutPut} && ls -lAR --si --ignore="${IGNORE}" ${SDIR}|grep 'total' -B1|grep '^total[[:space:]][0-9\.]*[mMgG][[:space:]]*' -B1 >${OutPut}/dir-size.out 2>&1
echo -e "\nTotal Size Of Dir $SDIR" >>${OutPut}/dir-size.out 2>&1
du -ach ${SDIR}|grep "[[:space:]]total$" >>${OutPut}/dir-size.out 2>&1
less ${OutPut}/dir-size.out
#-CUT & PASTE---------------------------------------------------------
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