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How to know the size of a directory?

If I run

ls -lh

then any given directory is just shown as 4.0K. How can I can make it consider the files the directory refers to as well?

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marked as duplicate by Steven D, Michael Mrozek♦ Nov 4 '10 at 1:58

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Use du -h and all directories and their subdirectories are being aggregated. (The -h makes it human readable as in useful units like MB, GB or KB)

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