How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories

[Todd Zullinger]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> I have a question about du though. On the other machine where I
> wanted to find out the size of my soundfiles directory, du couldn't
> access it because it was named "Sounds Library" , without the
> quotes. I renamed it putting a hyphen between the 2 words, and then
> du accessed the directory ok, but all of the subdirectories are
> multi worded without any hyphens, and du didn't have any problem
> with them. Any reason why du will not access the main directory
> without hyphenated words, and yet has no problem with all the
> subdirectories?
> 
> It's not a big deal, just puzzling.

It's not likely a du issue, but a matter of quoting the dir.

> btw. The now Sounds-Library (with the hyphen) is on a separate
> harddrive so I have to run du as.
> 
> du -sh /mnt/hdb5/Sounds-Library

If you left it as Sounds Library you could use du as:

du -sh "/mnt/hdb5/Sounds Library"

or

du -sh /mnt/hdb5/Sounds\ Library

If you just use:

du -sh /mnt/hdb5/Sounds Library

then the shell passes du two separate arguments, /mnt/hdb5/Sounds and
Library; neither of which are likely to exist or be the intended
arguments.

HTH,

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