Walter Schrabmair
Reputation: 1341
how to get total filesize of the files when only the links are availble
In Linux I have a directory with links to some files anywhere in the system. Now I would like to get the total filesize of these files where these links are referenced to. Can anyone here tell me how this is to be done? THanks
Upvotes: 2
Views: 49
Answers (1)
hnicke
Reputation: 602
Use du -shL <dirname>.
From the du manpage:
-L, --dereference
dereference all symbolic links
Upvotes: 3
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