get the size of a directory and its contents

[sde]

ls -lh directory

that will give me the size of the directory, but nothing inside of it.

ls -lhR

this will give me a huge list of all the items in the directory.

all i want is the size of the directory and its contents in the 'h' format.

any suggestions?

[Kernel_Killer]

du -h /dir

[Belisarius]

du -cs *

[sde]

245885 total

is that kb?

[redhead]

Thats in kb

[Belisarius]

I'm using the du that comes with Cygwin, and it defaults to human readable. Like Kernel said, there's a -h option that I assume prints out the totals in human-readable format.

[sde]

i dont' know how i missed kernel's post, but when i came here last night, i only saw yours be, .. lol.

thanks a lot for the help all!