What is the command to list the amount of blocks used by your home directory and everything under it? Only one number, not a whole list of them.
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Like this:
du -s --block-size=$MY_BLOCK_SIZE $HOME Of course, replace $MY_BLOCK_SIZE with the block size you want to use, or omit the --blocksize=$MY_BLOCK_SIZE argument if you want to use the default of 1024 bytes/block:
Display values are in units of the first available SIZE from --block-size, and the DU_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE and BLOCKSIZE environment variables. Otherwise, units default to 1024 bytes (or 512 if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set). 