I know I can use du -h to output the total size of a directory. But when it contains other subdirectories, the output would be something like:  du -h /root/test  . . . . 24K   /root/test/1 64K   /root/test/2 876K  /root/test/3 1.1M  /root/test/4 15M   /root/test/5 17M   /root/test   I only want the last line because there are too many small directories in the /root/test directory. What can I do?
I tried to obtain the size of a directory (containing directories and sub directories) by using the ls command with option l. It seems to work for files (ls -l file name), but if I try to get the size of a directory (for instance, ls -l /home), I get only 4096 bytes, although altogether it is much bigger.
I'm getting into English recently and I'm a little confused by the way people pronounce a word that starts in a vowel right after a word ending in -ing.  For example:      You have to bring it up now?   I don't know if I should pronounce it as:   bring /ŋit/ brin' /nit/ bring /git/   Another example would be "I'm coming out".  Likewise, what about the ending -ang? For example:      We can just hang out and have a good time.    And to round it all up, what about a combination of the two? For example,      He got sick of hanging around waiting for you and went home.   I've been asking myself these questions for weeks. How is Selenium RC different from Selenium Web driver and some good pointers for a naive beginner to learn to scripting please? Thanks! What are "electron holes" in semiconductors? I'm tutoring senior high school students. So far I've explained them the concepts of atomic structure (Bohr's model &amp; Quantum mechanical model) very clearly. 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How can I run a long time process, that will not be killed?  I tried using nohup, but it didn't work either.  System: Arch Linux  Update  I found a solution , thanks to .  I use at now to run my job detached from udev process.  But the one question remains unanswered: Why do nohup and &amp; not work? This picture is a part of a table i am using, the terms subcases are vertically written but i cant center them vertically also in the next columns terms like A, B, etc are also not vertically centered. I made this table using tabulary package a. My code is  \begin{table}[H]  \centering  \caption{Saturation Table}  \label{tab:5}%  \begin{tabulary}{1\linewidth}{J J J J J J J J J J J J J}  \toprule  &amp; \textbf{Method} &amp; \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{Parameters}} &amp; \textbf{Step 0} &amp; \textbf{Step 1} &amp; \textbf{Step 2} &amp; \textbf{Step 3} &amp; \textbf{Step 4} &amp; \textbf{Step 5} &amp; \textbf{Step 6} &amp; \textbf{Step 7} &amp; \textbf{Step 8} &amp; \textbf{Step 9} \\  \midrule  \multirow{4}[4]{*}{\begin{sideways}\textbf{Subcase A}\end{sideways}} &amp;  \multirow{2}[2]{*}{\textbf{A}} &amp; \textbf{No} &amp; 1 &amp; 2 &amp; 3 &amp; 4 &amp; 5 &amp; \textbf{6} &amp; &amp; &amp; &amp; \\[1mm]  &amp; &amp; \textbf{Maximum Saturation {(\%)}} &amp; 1 &amp; 2 &amp; 3 &amp; 4 &amp; 4 &amp; \textbf{5} &amp; &amp; &amp; &amp; \\  \cmidrule{2-13} &amp; \multirow{2}[2]{*}{\textbf{B}} &amp; \textbf{No} &amp; 1 &amp; 2 &amp; 3 &amp; 4 &amp; 5 &amp; 6 &amp; 7 &amp; \textbf{8} &amp; &amp; \\[1mm]  &amp; &amp; \textbf{Maximum Saturation {(\%)}} &amp; 6 &amp; 6 &amp; 7 &amp; 8 &amp; 9 &amp; 9 &amp; 19 &amp; \textbf{8} &amp; &amp; \\  \bottomrule  \end{tabulary}%  \end{table}% How can I make a part of a texture glow? I need to make a part of a texture glow slightly. Like Killer Crocs eyes (see image below)     How do I do this?  I added a black and white texture (white for the glow. But then this happened.     There are strange colors around the eyes. Also how do I change the white glow to red? Using a question mark mid-sentence How do I convert the coordinates of a click to a tilemap position? How do you turn a tilemap (produced by TileD) for cocos2d where I can click on individual items and get a callback?  Is it just a case of converting captured touch and finding out where it is on the tilemap and then converting that to pixels  -- but that doesn't say what item was clicked on.  I have a tilemap of a city with buildings on it, and I'd like to be able to click or press on a specific building, get a callback.  What would be the best way to accomplish this? Show the two fields are not isomorphic Let $p,q,r$ be prime integers with $q\neq r$. 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What is a good way of parsing command line arguments in Java? I want to produce four groups (high/high, high/low, low/high and low/low) using two continues variables and compare these groups in terms of a few dependent variables. I know that cluster analysis (k-means and hierarchical) is a type of 'end' analysis which is the main goal of the paper to reach such clusters and then discuss the nature of the clusters. However, I am willing to use this technique (k-means by using k=4) as a kind of preliminary analysis to produce the groups. I know that scatter plot and means splits are other alternatives but they have their own disadvantages that cluster analysis may resolve. What do you think? Why would a single celled organism evolve to be multi-celled? I read a story this week on Richard Lenski who has been 'evolving' E. coli for more than 50,000 generations now.  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And here is my problem, I think the local curvature is not just described by its Hessian matrix, because $f'$ also has its role in it, doesn't it?  And furthermore, for 2-variable function $f(x,y)$, its Hessian matrix is  $$\mathcal{Hess}(f) = \left[ \begin{array}{cc} f_{xx}'' &amp; f_{xy}'' \\ f_{xy}'' &amp; f_{yy}'' \end{array} \right].$$ How does it relate to the local curvature of $f(x,y)$? What is the difference between “do” and “make”? If $A$ and $B$ are compact subsets of $\mathbb R$, then so is $\frac{A}B$. Given compact $A,B \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ with $\alpha := \inf(B) &gt; 0$, define $$\frac{A}B := \left\{\frac{x}y : x \in A  \text{ and } y \in B\right\}.$$ Show that $\frac{A}{B}$ is compact.  I am thinking of using the following result given in a previous exercice but I don't know how to proceed.     $K \subset \mathbb R^n$ is compact if and only if for all $\{x_{n}\}$ such that $\{x_{n} : n\in \{1,2,\dotsc\}\}\subset K$, there exists a convergent subsequence $\{{x_{\phi(n)}}\}$ that converges to a limit $l \in K$.   When does the infimum come into place? How come gas molecules don't settle down? If the earth's gravity exerts a net downward gravitational force on all air molecules, how come the molecules don't eventually lose their momentum and all settle down? How is the atmosphere is still miles thick after billions of years? Which are the non Schengen countries that allow entry for Schengen visa holders? There are countries in the Balkan area that allow entry if you have a Schengen visa but am not able find a definite list of all those countries. Knowing that will save me getting a visa for all those countries when I do my mega Euro trip. I would like to use pgfplots to create a figure where I plot curves that have a recursive formula. I tried a very simple case that uses the declare function command to see whether this is possible, and I can't compile (TeX capacity exceeded). Is it even possible to do this?  \documentclass{standalone}  \usepackage{pgfplots}  \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture}[   declare function={test(\p)=ifthenelse(\p&gt;1, test(\p-1), 0.5);}, ]     \begin{axis}[]     % use TeX as calculator:     \addplot [mark=none] {x};     \addplot [mark=none] {test(0)};     \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document}