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linux show size of folder contents in ls or some other command

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Mar 15, 202672334 views
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Problem

I know these folders each have >80gb of files. Yet, they only show 4.0K in ls -lah? How can I have ls show size including the contents?

Error Output

[root@aapsan01 aapxen01]# ls -lah
total 48K
drwxrwxrwx  6 root root 4.0K Sep 29 03:45 .
drwxrwxrwx 15 root root 4.0K Sep 27 09:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 ro…

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Fix for: linux show size of folder contents in ls or some other command

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should show how much space the folders use

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