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du—summarizes disk usage


du [–arskod] [name ...]


The du command reports the number of 512-byte blocks contained in all files and (recursively) directories within each directory and file specified.

Example A.22.

1   du -s /desktop

2   du -a


EXPLANATION

  1. Displays a summary of the block usage for all the files in /desktop and its subdirectories.

  2. Displays block usage for each file in this directory and subdirectories.

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