SYNOPSIS
du [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for direc
tories.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for
short options too.
-a, --all
write counts for all files, not just directories
--apparent-size
print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage;
although the apparent size is usually smaller, it
may be larger due to holes in (`sparse') files,
internal fragmentation, indirect blocks, and the
like
-B, --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks
-b, --bytes
equivalent to `--apparent-size --block-size=1'
-c, --total
produce a grand total
-D, --dereference-args
dereference FILEs that are symbolic links
-h, --human-readable
print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M
2G)
-H, --si
likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
-k like --block-size=1K
-l, --count-links
count sizes many times if hard linked
-L, --dereference
dereference all symbolic links
-S, --separate-dirs
do not include size of subdirectories
-s, --summarize
display only a total for each argument
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by)
one of following: kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M
1,048,576, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
PATTERNS
PATTERN is a shell pattern (not a regular expression).
The pattern ? matches any one character, whereas *
matches any string (composed of zero, one or multiple
characters). For example, *.o will match any files whose
names end in .o. Therefore, the command
du --exclude='*.o'
will skip all files and subdirectories ending in .o
(including the file .o itself).
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Larry
McVoy, Paul Eggert, and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying condi
tions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for du is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and du programs are properly
installed at your site, the command
info du
should give you access to the complete manual.
du (coreutils) 4.5.8 February 2003 DU(1)
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