How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 22:11, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 22:01:24 +0100,
>
>   Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > Thanks Todd, and you Bruno. Now I've learned a bit about using quotes,
> > but why does that apply to the directory you are accessing using du, but
> > doesn't apply to the subdirectories within that directory?
>
> It is a feature of the command line. Internally the names don't need
> to be quoted. (Though some commands will run other commands using a shell
> and shell expansion and quoting will apply to those commands.)
>
> If you want to read more about shell commands, try man bash. (There are
> other shells, but bash is the normal default.)

Thanks Bruno. I'll have another go in man bash, and see if I can learn a bit 
more.

Many thanks for the reply.

Nigel.