Command to get directory size

[Nate Harel]

Hi all,

I need to write a small script that gives me the size of a particular
directory. Is there a command or set of commands that will do this?
thanks

Nate

[CountScubula]

"Nate Harel" <nh****@nettech-services.net> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I need to write a small script that gives me the size of a particular
directory. Is there a command or set of commands that will do this?
thanks

Nate

use this, then print to see how it looks

$dir = "/some/dir/";
$res = `df -c $dir`;

print $res;
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Mike Bradley
http://gzen.myhq.info -- free online php tools

[Dan Tripp]

CountScubula wrote:

"Nate Harel" <nh****@nettech-services.net> wrote in message
news:3f**********************@news.rcn.com...

Hi all,

I need to write a small script that gives me the size of a particular
directory. Is there a command or set of commands that will do this?
thanks

Nate

use this, then print to see how it looks

$dir = "/some/dir/";
$res = `df -c $dir`;

print $res;
--
Mike Bradley
http://gzen.myhq.info -- free online php tools

You might want to consider using disk_total_space()

$dir = "/path/to/dir";
$size_in_bytes = disk_total_space($dir);
$size_in_k = $size_in_bytes / 1024;

There's some discussion about this here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...otal-space.php

Yeah, I'd have thought that disk_total_space would give you the size of
the entire disk, not a directory. /shrug =)

Warm regards,

- Dan
dantripp.com

[CountScubula]

> You might want to consider using disk_total_space()

$dir = "/path/to/dir";
$size_in_bytes = disk_total_space($dir);
$size_in_k = $size_in_bytes / 1024;

There's some discussion about this here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...otal-space.php

Yeah, I'd have thought that disk_total_space would give you the size of
the entire disk, not a directory. /shrug =)

Warm regards,

- Dan
dantripp.com

good to know, every time i read the manual, i miss something, or forget, or
combo thereof :)

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Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools