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 ====== How to Find the Size of a Folder ======
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 All the information present in this article is available in the man pages for du and df. In case you get bored reading the man pages and you want to get your work done quickly, then this article is for you.\\
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+==== Better Examples ====
+To find the size of a directory that you are currently in
+    du -h -s
+For example, here is the contents of my home folder:
+<file>
+drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  90 Aug  9 11:05 nics
+drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 135 Nov  8 18:22 openstack
+drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root  17 Aug  9 11:12 streamer
+</file>
+To see the combined size of these folders, I use:
+    du -h -s
+This gives me the output:
+G     .
+Lets say I am interested in how much is in the 'streamer' folder (staying in /home) I can just add a '*' at the end.
+    du -h -s *
+This gives:
+<file>
+K     nics
+.1M    openstack
+G     streamer
+</file>
+Lets use this command on the /home/streamer/bin folder:
+    cd /home/streamer/bin
+    ll
+    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root        128 Aug  9 11:15 1080i
+    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2636986136 Aug  9 11:21 avp.ts
+    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root         44 Aug  9 11:15 bbc
+    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root        192 Aug  9 11:18 CRa
+    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root         67 Aug  9 11:18 example
+    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root         63 Aug  9 11:18 itv
+    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root         87 Aug  9 11:21 kill_all_mpeg2ts_broadcaster.sh
+    -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     825163 Aug  9 11:21 libos.so
+    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       4096 Sep 20 15:53 MK.ts
+    -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root      17387 Aug  9 11:21 mpeg2ts_broadcaster
+    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  813563044 Aug  9 11:21 Oro4KTest.ts
+    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root        105 Aug  9 11:19 virgin
+    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       4096 Aug  9 11:20 zb
+Now I use the following:
+    du -h -s
+The output is:
+G     .
+However, if I use the same with a star * at the end:
+<file>
+du -h -s *
+.3G    1080i
+.5G    avp.ts
+G     bbc
+M    CRa
+K    example
+M    itv
+.0K    kill_all_mpeg2ts_broadcaster.sh
+K    libos.so
+.4G    MK.ts
+K     mpeg2ts_broadcaster
+M    Oro4KTest.ts
+M    virgin
+.5G    zb
+</file>
+\\
+I could have done the same thing from say root by issuing the command:
+<file>
+du -h -s /home/streamer/bin/*
+.3G    /home/streamer/bin/1080i
+.5G    /home/streamer/bin/avp.ts
+G     /home/streamer/bin/bbc
+M    /home/streamer/bin/CRa
+K    /home/streamer/bin/example
+M    /home/streamer/bin/itv
+.0K    /home/streamer/bin/kill_all_mpeg2ts_broadcaster.sh
+K    /home/streamer/bin/libos.so
+.4G    /home/streamer/bin/MK.ts
+K     /home/streamer/bin/mpeg2ts_broadcaster
+M    /home/streamer/bin/Oro4KTest.ts
+M    /home/streamer/bin/virgin
+.5G    /home/streamer/bin/zb
+</file>
+\\
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+----
 ==== du - Finding the size of a directory ====
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