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Commands tagged directory size,du

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Terminal - Commands tagged directory size,du - 7 results
du -h --time --max-depth=1 | sort -hr
2013-04-27 03:03:44
User: funkjedi
Functions: du sort
Tags: directories directory size,du
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List directories sorted by (human readable) size
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du -h /path | sort -h
2011-09-02 13:26:23
User: moogmusic
Functions: du sort
Tags: size directory directory size,du
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List by size all of the directories in a given tree.
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parallel echo -n {}"\ "\;echo '$(du -s {} | awk "{print \$1}") / $(find {} | wc -l)' \| bc -l ::: *
2011-07-28 12:21:34
User: unixmonkey8046
Functions: awk bc du echo find wc
Tags: bash size parallel directory size,du average
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Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir

Use this to find identify if dirs mostly contain large or small files.

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SEARCHPATH=/var/; find $SEARCHPATH -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | sed 's|^.*'$SEARCHPATH'|'$SEARCHPATH'|' | xargs du -sh 2> /dev/null
2011-07-06 08:21:58
User: moogmusic
Functions: du find sed sort xargs
Tags: size directory directory size,du
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List by size all of the directories in a given tree.

This command lists all the directories in SEARCHPATH by size, displaying their size in a human readable format.

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watch -n <time_interval> "du -s <file_or_directory>"
2010-08-24 20:05:08
User: stbu
Functions: watch
Tags: file directory directory size,du
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continuously check size of files or directories
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while true; do du -s <file_or_directory>; sleep <time_interval>; done
2010-08-24 19:55:13
User: potatoface
Functions: du sleep
Tags: file directory directory size,du
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continuously check size of files or directories

very handy if you copy or download a/some file(s) and want to know how big it is at the moment

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du -h <Directory>
2010-06-04 03:14:37
User: Vasudev
Functions: du
Tags: directory size,du
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calculate the total size of files in specified directory (in Megabytes)

Prints the size of Directory in human readable format like KB MB or GB. If you want to see size each files and directories inside the directory use -a option as shown in second output and if you want a total sum then add -c option :)

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