Summaries/Overig/Linux/SizeFileDir.md

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SizeFileDir	2021-05-04 14:58:11Z	2021-05-04 14:58:11Z

Size File & Dirs

ls -l filename

lists the number of bytes

hexdump -C filename

lists the exact byte count and the non-printing characters as hex values

du filenaam

lists the number of blocks The blocksize can be found with:

stat -f /dev/sda1

du
du ~/work   ## size work dir in bytes
du -a       ## all files in bytes
du -d 1     ## all files in dir 1 level deep
du --block=1 ## blocksize 1 will give the exact size of dirs and files
du ---block=1M   == du -m   ## size in megabytes
du -h       ## human readable disk space
du -h -s    ## summary
du --apparent-size  ## apparent size of the file  
du --apparent-size -s  ## summary
du --time -d 2   ## creation time or last modification

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