du-summarizes disk usage

du ”summarizes disk usage

 du [arskod] [name ...] 

The du command reports the number of 512-byte blocks contained in all files and (recursively) directories within each directory and file specified.

Example A.22.

 1   du -s /desktop 2   du -a 

EXPLANATION

1. Displays a summary of the block usage for all the files in /desktop and its subdirectories.

2. Displays block usage for each file in this directory and subdirectories.