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- du.doc : The 'du' command
- By: Brian E. Yoder.
- 12/08/92
-
- The du command calculates the total bytes used by a set of files. For
- simplicity, only the files' sizes are calculated: the amount of space
- occupied by the disk blocks is not.
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- Command syntax
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-
- du [-shR] fspec ...
-
- The sizes of all files that match each file specification are added.
- The total size (in bytes) and the total number of matching files are
- written to stdout.
-
- By default, ordinary files are included. Specify -s to include system
- files and -h to include hidden files.
-
- Specify -R to recurse subdirectories looking for matching files.
-
- The information written to stdout is in the following format:
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