On a Windows system, `dir /u $dirname` gives something like: 
 Volume in drive F is Work           Serial number is 244F:5AF9
 Directory of  F:\dev\experiment\ScanWord\*

        366,148 bytes in 5 files and 2 dirs    393,216 bytes allocated
  4,040,884,224 bytes free

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which can be parsed back in.

That's what I get using the 4NT 4.00A command shell; with COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE results and actual flags to dir may be different.

In one application, I needed to know how much room a set of files would take up, before actually copying them to the target media (A CD-R). The filesystem of the staging area has different properties, so I couldn't just ask the filesystem, but had to compute it myself. Since I was already copying files over, it was easy to accumulate the size, rounding up to the sector size of the target.

—John

In reply to Re: Re: diskspace used by a directory by John M. Dlugosz
in thread diskspace used by a directory by c

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