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Dos Command/Batch file to find a folder size

Last answer on May 15, 2009 9:53:51 am BST trusp, on Dec 4, 2008 11:41:47 am GMT 
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Hello,
I need a DOS command/Batch file to get the folder size alone.
Example C:\Sample1
Size is :457865

Batch file must be DOS based.

Please help me on this.
Thanks

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Boris, on Dec 4, 2008 3:51:02 pm GMT

Hi,

You can do this with a batch file something like this:

@echo off
selLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set /a value=0
FOR /R %1 %%I IN (*) DO set /a value=!value!+%%~zI
@echo Size is: !value!

HTH
Boris

   
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Boris, on Dec 4, 2008 3:52:26 pm GMT
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Run the batch file passing the name of the directory you want to get the size of i.e.
dirsize c:\temp

   
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Boris, on Dec 4, 2008 4:03:05 pm GMT
  • +4

For large directories, it might be better to list in k or Mb to avoid number overflow...

@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set /a value=0
set /a sum=0
FOR /R %1 %%I IN (*) DO (
set /a value=%%~zI/1024
set /a sum=!sum!+!value!
)
@echo Size is: !sum! k

   
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Methical, on Apr 17, 2009 7:54:19 am BST
  • +1

Hi mate, cheers for the script
But could you adapt it to hold wildcard characters such as * and ?

I'm trying to get the size of the firefox cache in vista to add into my cleanup script. Since the profile which is "..\xxxxxx.default\cache\" and xxxxxx is different on all computers, i would like to use wildcard characters plz..

dirsize C:\Users\Methical\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\sr1znn4b.default\Cache

dirsize %localappdata\Mozilla\Firefox\*.default\Cache

   
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trusp, on Dec 5, 2008 9:50:40 am GMT
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Hi Boris,

Thank you very much for your respond.
I copied this script and executed as you specified. But not got any solution.
The following was been displayed in CLI.
C:\>Test.cmd C:\Sample
'selLocal' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Missing operator.
Missing operator.
Missing operator
....
Size is: !value!

So I put @echo on and the CLI executed as shown below:
C:\>Test.cmd C:\Sample

C:\>selLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
'selLocal' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>set /a value=0

C:\>FOR /R C:\Sample %I IN (*) DO set /a value=!value!+%~zI

C:\>set /a value=!value!+3064
Missing operator.

C:\>set /a value=!value!+2672
Missing operator.

C:\>set /a value=!value!+6135
Missing operator.

C:\>set /a value=!value!+5
Missing operator.

C:\>set /a value=!value!+2
Missing operator.
Size is: !value!

Please Help me out in this.
Say where i made mistake ?
I need this very urgent. So please...

   
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 Little Helper, on May 15, 2009 9:53:51 am BST
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It's a simple spelling error: He meant "setlocal".

Google could have told you this, try googling: sellocal batch script

In the first line, google will say "Did you mean setlocal?".

Have fun.

   
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