How to find size of directory in unix
Finding file size or directory size in Unix and Linux is not very difficult but if you came from windows background than it may sounds difficult to you because you need to remember unix commands for file and directory size. This is a common complain from windows user when they exposed to Unix operating system be it Linux or Solaris. but In my opinion having commands for doing things is more powerful because you can write powerful scripts for removing large files or taking backup of directories in unix which is not possible with GUI based operating systems like Windows. In this unix command tutorial we will see how to find size of file and directory in unix, how to find large files in unix, how to find disk space in file system and some other file and directory related stuff.
This article is continuation of my earlier post on Unix e.g. 10 Example of grep command in Unix, 10 example of chmod command in unix and How to sort files and directory in Unix using sort command. If you haven’t read them already, You may find them useful and interesting.
