let p also display folder sizes

[muellerto]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I would find it a good idea to get a size information about a directory (or symlinked directory) before I start a copy or move operation with the contents of that directory.

Describe the solution you'd like When I press p on a directory (or symlinked directory) please sum up all file sizes in the directory recursively and show the result in a new line below the other data. For a single file this is already the case but for a directory it would be even more interesting.

I often copy audio files, such a directory has then about 100MB. In this case it would be good to know if there's enough space on the destination side, especially when I move it because a move operation fails normally with some files here and some files there which is always annoying.

If you don't want to have this on p by default make an option so that the user can decide if he wants this. Or make a new P command.

Describe alternatives you've considered I know there is the disk usage analyzer mode on ALT-Tab, but this shows the sizes for all directories and takes a long time in some cases. Getting the folder size of a specific folder would be much faster.

An interesting thing would also be a size check before the c or m commands are executed. (Yes, can still fail later ...)

[leo-arch]

Hi @muellerto, That's exactly what the pp command does: it's just like p, but includes full directories size.

[muellerto]

Coool, some solutions are so easy. Probably I will use pp now generally.

I did read the doc. But the pp command is mentioned only in the text. It wasn't able to find the way into my mind.

[leo-arch]

In this case, an alias might be handy:

alias p="pp"