Getting size of directories and exclude some folders

Question

I have an directory structure like this:

1. application1
2. application1_edit
3. application2
4. application2_edit

Is there any way to get the total size for every folder (including sub-directories) and exclude all folders with _edit in name?

I have tried du -s on the root folder, but it lists all sub-directories.

Answer 1

Something like this should do it.

$ du -s application[12]

Example

$ ls -l
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 2 saml saml 4096 Nov 28 01:51 application1
drwxrwxr-x 2 saml saml 4096 Nov 28 01:51 application1_edit
drwxrwxr-x 2 saml saml 4096 Nov 28 01:51 application2
drwxrwxr-x 2 saml saml 4096 Nov 28 01:51 application2_edit

Disk usage:

$ du -s application[12]
4   application1
4   application2