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Du Command to get Size of Directory in Linux

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Vijay Kumar
Dec 11, 2019

Have you noticed “how can you see the size of the directory in Linux?” where have you seen the size of a directory in Linux? Don’t you remember? But in fact, you can’t see the directory size in a general way. You must do some extra effort for completing this task. I will cover everything in

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Vijay Kumar

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