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Unix/Linux Find Size of Files in a Directory

Wait… before I try to copy this directory recursively, how big is it?

du -sk /path/to/directory

-s : Display only a total for each argument
-k : Display size in KB

Oh dear. I’m going to need a bigger disk.

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