How to know total number of bytes of a directory

[Andy Greenwood]

DSA - JCR wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I would like to know the total number of bytes of a directory and its
> related subdirs, occupied by the files inside it. I haven't found any
> command for knowning it.
>   

# du -s /etc
17008   /etc

You need read privs to all the subdirectories, otherwise you'll get 
permission errors and it'll skip those. Note that this displays usage in 
512-byte blocks, not bytes, but you should be able to figure it out from 
there.

>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> Sincerely
>
> Juan Coruña
> Desarrollo de Software Atlantico
>
>
>
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