Kevin,

> I'd like to know if I can change the view of the ls command to show the
> total disk useage of a directory in the ls command? I'd like to know
> when I do an ls command, not the 4096, but the cummulative disk useage
> of that directory.  Is this possible?

> drwxr-xr-x   2 kevin    users        4096 Nov  8 22:36 cliq
> drwx------  28 kevin    users        4096 Dec  4 19:34 doctrine
> drwx------   2 kevin    users        4096 Dec  5 09:40 duclasses
> drwx------   2 kevin    users        4096 Dec  5 09:40 government

Use 'du' to get disk usage statistics.  There's a whole lot of command
line options to change the way du works, man du to find out.

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