September 20, 2023

Show size of a file from the command line with ls or du

$ 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 <code>ls</code> or <code>du</code>, run <code>$ man ls</code> or <code>$ man du</code>.

To show the size of a folder, see: https://yctct.com/show-size-folder-recursively

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