September 20, 2023

Show size of a file or a directory from the command line

$ ls -lh file.txt

or

$ du -h file.txt

will print size of the file in “human readable format”, i.e. the h option.

To learn more about ls or du, run $ man ls or $ man du.

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I do self-funded research and I'm writing a book.

> What's the book about?

About technologies and epistemology.

Meaning, technologies can foster agency. No doubt. But I am also asking:

Can technologies make us blind?

I posted a summary of the prologue on the homepage: https://yctct.com/

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