Commands using du (244)
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Useful for analyzing disk usage. If you prefer GUI try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight or http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/ Show Sample Output
0du -aB1m|awk '$1 >= 100' -
du only accepts lines ending with a NUL, which can be a pain to create. This solves that issue.
0cat filename | tr '\n' '\0' | du -hsc ?files0-from=- -
Got a file you're generating and you want the size without typing in 'ls -l file' all the time? Use this instead. Show Sample Output
0while [ 1 ]; do du /var/log/messages;sleep 60; done -
0find /home/bubo/ -type f \( -iname \*.jpg -print0 , -iname \*.png -print0 , -iname \*gif -print0 \) | du -cm --files0-from - | tail -1
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Warning!, if the pattern didn't find anything it shows the total size of dot dir Show Sample Output
0find . -name 'pattern'| xargs du -hc -
This command shows the size of directories below here, refreshing every 2s. It will also track directories created after running the command (that what the find bit does). Show Sample Output
0watch 'find -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d |xargs du -csh' -
A really useful pair of du options. Show Sample Output
0du -hs /path/to/target -
sudo is optional, but to find out about all files, it is nice, or else run as superuser, ie: su -c 'du -sm * | sort -n' Show Sample Output
0sudo du -sm * | sort -n -
This Command will list files & folders which are in GBs. G can be replace by M to get files in MBs.
0du -h |grep -P "^\S*G" -
Output made so that it will match initial suggestion for this task. Personally, I think that output of du -h is more readable.
0find . -type f -size +20000k -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | awk -F"\t" '{printf "%s : %s\n", $2, $1}' -
print sum of disk usage for filetype within current dir and subdirs Show Sample Output
0find . -name '*.xml' -type f -print | xargs du -ch -
Credit goes to brun65i but he posted it as a comment instead as an alternative. I hadn't noticed the -h option on sort before and this seems like the cleanest alternative. Thanks Brun65i! Show Sample Output
0du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr -
0du -kh --max-depth=1 | sort -n |head
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0du -h / | grep -w "[0-9]*G"
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Shows the size of the directory the command is ran in. The size is in MB and GB. There is no need to type the path, its the current working directory. Show Sample Output
0du -sh `pwd` -
6 characters counting whitespace!
0du -sh * -
0du -ms * | sort -nr
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0du -s $(ls -l | grep '^d' | awk '{print $9}') | sort -nr
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0du -cah /path/to/folder/ | grep total
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0du -hs * | sort -h
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"-exec" ftw.
0find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -hr | head -
0du -h --max-depth=1
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the -h option of du and sort (on appropriate distrib) makes output "Human" readable and still sorted by "reversed size" (sort -rh) Show Sample Output
0du -sh /home/*|sort -rh|head -n 10 -
0find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs du -sh
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without reverse...
0du -sm /home/* | sort -n | tail -10 - ‹ First < 4 5 6 7 8 > Last ›
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