How to check linux folder size ?

[NICKAN]

Hi

In linux i made one folder in that i save some data. Now i want to check my folder size in linux can you told me how to do that ? My folder name is work it including the subfolders and files.

[KAELIN]

try stat filename for complete info on file along with size. you can run the command "du". This is disk usage reporting. It has many options (which you can get the full detail of with "man du" at your command prompt). The ones I normally use are -h - for human, and -s for summarise.

du -s /dir/

[Rocky4]

following Command displays the size of the folder /home/andrew.

du -s /home/andrew
19112204 /home/andrew

option -s displays a summarized size, or total size. If you do not use the -s option then it will list the size of all files and folders in the path /home/andrew recursively.