YES! This does exactly what I wanted, thanks to all! At 10:46 AM 12/18/00 -1000, you wrote: >ls | xargs -n 1 du -hs > >On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:25:19PM -1000, Griffith Feeney wrote: >> How to combine 'ls' and 'du' to get a listing of the space taken by each >> directory in /?