Example 1-5 Size of files du

• We often need to know the size of a given directory. For example if we want to know what is the size of directory BHRC in directory example1, we use the following command,

• du BHRC

• If we want to know how many kb is the size of the ffb files in directory mloc, we use following command. The command gives size of each file and then at the end produces a grand total.

• du -c *ffb