Re: possible enhancement in ls

[Eric Blake]

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According to Arjun Shankar on 3/26/2006 10:00 PM:
> Hi!
> I have noticed that in the 'ls' program, there is no option to show
> the size of the _contents_ of a directory. Would it not make more
> sense if the program showed the size of a directory as - "it's size
> plus the size of files and subdirectories", where the size of the
> subdirectories would also be calculated in the same way.

Thanks for the request - however, what you describe is already available
in the du (diskusage) utility.  This feature will probably never be added
to ls, because it is much slower to traverse all subdirectories and do
additional stats in order to find the total size contained in a directory.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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