in reply to Unix size

I'm not sure I understand your question. If you want to get disc usage for several directories, just include them in the argument list.

If you want to get disc usage reports per partition, use df instead.

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Re^2: Unix size
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2012 at 13:16 UTC

    I want the disk usage of the whole / to be saved in $size. But when i pass / i get disk usage for home not the whole /. pls help