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Section: FSF (1)Updated: March 2002
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NAME
du - estimate file space usageSYNOPSIS
du [OPTION]... [FILE]...DESCRIPTION
Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories.
- -a, --all
- write counts for all files, not just directories
-
--block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks
- -b, --bytes
-
- print size in bytes
- -c, --total
- produce a grand total
- -D, --dereference-args
- dereference PATHs when symbolic link
- -h, --human-readable
- print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
- -H, --si
- likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
- -k, --kilobytes
- like --block-size=1024
- -l, --count-links
- count sizes many times if hard linked
- -L, --dereference
- dereference all symbolic links
- -m, --megabytes
- like --block-size=1048576
- -S, --separate-dirs
- do not include size of subdirectories
- -s, --summarize
- display only a total for each argument
- -x, --one-file-system
- skip directories on different filesystems
- -X FILE, --exclude-from=FILE
- Exclude files that match any pattern in FILE.
- --exclude=PAT
- Exclude files that match PAT.
- --max-depth=N
- print the total for a directory (or file, with --all) only if it is N or fewer levels below the command line argument; --max-depth=0 is the same as --summarize
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Larry McVoy, and Paul Eggert.REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for du is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and du programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info du
should give you access to the complete manual.
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