Re: Folder size and number of files

db <dieterhansbr...@gmail.com> [d]:
d> Is there a command that gives me the size of a given folder, and
d> the number of files in it?

No, but you can always define your own:


dir_size_and_number_of_files(){
  # collect the output of du/find
  set $(
    du -sh "${1:-.}"; find "${1:-.}" -type f | wc -l
  )
  # and print it nicely
  echo -e "$2\t$1\t$3"
}


And then use it with or without a directory argument:


dir_size_and_number_of_files /home/user123
/home/user123 2.7M 263

# when run with no arguments, it will check the current directory
dir_size_and_number_of_files
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