How to find folder size

Selvakumar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: How to find folder size by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 08, 2009 at 09:47 UTC
-s returns the size of a file (even if that file is a directory). If you want to sum the sizes of the files within a directory then you'll probably want something like File::Find. -- See the Copyright notice on my home node. Perl training courses	[reply]
Re^2: How to find folder size by spx2 (Deacon) on Jul 08, 2009 at 10:11 UTC
or you can just parse output of `du -csh <directory>`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How to find folder size by ropey (Hermit) on Jul 08, 2009 at 10:29 UTC
Not very portable though - better to stick to davorg solution.	[reply]
Re^4: How to find folder size by JavaFan (Canon) on Jul 08, 2009 at 11:21 UTC
Re: How to find folder size by Anonymous Monk on Jul 08, 2009 at 11:37 UTC
Use the search funtion: folder size	[reply]
Re: How to find folder size by boardryder (Novice) on Jul 08, 2009 at 18:55 UTC
The way I've done it is for every file in each specified directory use the -s on the files and add them up. Here's a snippet of something similar I've done. ie. `$size = 0; if (-f $var){ $size = -s $var; $dir_size =+ $size; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]