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I've been looking for this command for a while!

I've been doing a bit of command line interface work lately that involves moving directory's around and other such things.

I've been looking for this command for a while. It will allow you to see size of directory on the command line.

Also because of bandwidth constraints it is of often a lot easier to ssh around a few machines instead of using VNC clients(although this VNC client for the mac is well worth a look!).

this lovely bit of code is what I've been looking for



(gives size of all folders in a directory)



du -sh *

6.1G	Desktop

456K	Documents

2.1G	Downloads

425M	Library

 24M	Movies

271M	Music

 12M	Pictures

2.7M	Public

 56K	Request for information.pages

 41M	Sites

8.0K	bin





Also 



du -sh Documents/



which prints the size of a folder



456K	Documents/

As the manual puts it this reports in "Human readable format"!

A great little bit of code for logs and other scripting jobs.

Oh yes I forgot to mention happy new Year!