[ale] Re: du help?

[x3 at ChangingLINKS.com (ChangingLINKS.com)]

Look more closely and see the "-m" at the end. That requests that the size be 
reported in Mega Bytes. Directories with nothing in them were reported as "1"
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On Thursday 15 August 2002 09:11, you wrote:
> > Well, Geoffrey's command worked (not sure why at all) but it pointed out
> > that the /home/drew/.xsession-errors file was alledgedly 842MB. I looked
> > in the
> >
> > ]$ du -s /home/user/* /home/user/.??* > /data/3.txt -m
>
> [...]
>
> > 842	/home/user/.xsession-errors
>
> du reports, by default, in units of 1024 bytes, so you file is actually
> only 842KB.
>
> Ed


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