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Date:      Sat, 5 Jan 2008 03:51:44 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Paging Matthew Seaman
Message-ID:  <20080105035144.28a1009e@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <20080104183556.GC19087@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:35:56 -0500
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote:


> I may be missing what you want, but I try CDing to the directory
> and then doing the du -hs *    eg
>   cd /tmp
>   du -hs *
>
> It seems to get it when naming the directory doesn't.

Personally I tend to use "du -hd1" rather than "du -hs *" 

"*" relies on shell expansion, so ignores top-level hidden directories,
and can show a lot of unwanted clutter from top-level files. 



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