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Provide the ten largest subfolders in the current folder
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3

du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10

mirams · 2014-04-14 17:54:23 11
Shows space used by each directory of the root filesystem excluding mountpoints/external filesystems (and sort the output)
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find / -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec du -skx {} \; | sort -n

fumok · 2019-03-04 14:39:41 37
Shows space used by each directory of the root filesystem excluding mountpoints/external filesystems (and sort the output)

Excludes other mountpoints with acavagni's "mountpoint" idea, but with -exec instead of piping to an xargs subshell. Then, calling "du" only once with -exec's "+" option. The first "\! -exec" acts as a test so only those who match are passed to the second "-exec" for du. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
4.0K    /lib64
8.0K    /media
8.0K    /srv
32K     /tmp
92K     /boot
5.8M    /sbin
7.9M    /bin
18M     /etc
45M     /lib
49M     /opt
908M    /root
1.7G    /usr
7.5G    /var
18G     /home
```
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find / -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d \! -empty \! -exec mountpoint -q {} \; -exec du -xsh {} + | sort -h

pdxdoughnut · 2019-03-06 22:17:05 36
Summarise the size of all files matching a simple regex

Use the find command to match certain files and summarise their total size in KBytes. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
150000
```
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find /path/to/my/files/ -type f -name "*txt*" | xargs du -k | awk 'BEGIN{x=0}{x=x+$1}END{print x}'

unixmonkey3280 · 2009-04-16 14:17:04 7
Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)
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2

du -ms * | sort -nk1

Tekhne · 2009-07-08 22:11:50 25
cooking a list of numbers for calculation

When you've got a list of numbers each on its row, the ECHO command puts them on a simple line, separated by space. You can then substitute the spaces with an operator. Finally, pipe it to the BC program. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+0+11+2+10+14+21+19+19+21+1+1+1+1
```
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echo $( du -sm /var/log/* | cut -f 1 ) | sed 's/ /+/g'

flux · 2009-07-31 21:42:53 5
get diskusage of files modified during the last n days

get diskusage of files (in this case logfiles in /var/log) modified during the last n days: sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -n -type f | xargs du -ch n -> last modified n*24 hours ago Numeric arguments can be specified as +n for greater than n, -n for less than n, n for exactly n. => so 7*24 hours (about 7 days) is -7 sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | tail -n1 Show Sample Output
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```
$ sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | tail -n1
25M     total

or

$ sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | grep total
25M     total
```
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sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | tail -n1

alvinx · 2009-08-27 14:18:47 5
Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals and sort directory and files
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2

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d|xargs du -a --max-depth=0|sort -rn|cut -d/ -f2|sed '1d'|while read i;do echo "$(du -h --max-depth=0 "$i")/";done;find . -maxdepth 1 -type f|xargs du -a|sort -rn|cut -d/ -f2|sed '$d'|while read i;do du -h "$i";done

nickwe · 2009-09-03 20:33:21 5
Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

no fancy grep stuff here.
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2

du | sort -nr | cut -f2- | xargs du -hs

unixmonkey7118 · 2009-11-20 17:14:40 4
find out how much space are occuipied by files smaller than 1024K (sic) - improved

The original didn't use -print0 which fails on weird file names eg with spaces. The original parsed the output of 'ls -l' which is always a bad idea.
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2

find dir -size -1024k -type f -print0 | du --files0-from - -bc

bhepple · 2009-12-29 01:33:55 3
make sure you don't add large file to your repository
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svn status | awk '{print $2}' | xargs du | sort -n | tail

maarten · 2010-08-05 17:56:55 3
Sum file sizes

Even simpler! Use du ... the -s and -c flags summarize and print a grand total of all files recursively. The -b flag prints in byte format. You can use the -h flag instead to print in human readable format. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
[bbbco ~]$ du -scb
106105284745	.
106105284745	total

[bbbco ~]$ du -sch
99G	.
99G	total
```
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du -scb

bbbco · 2011-06-27 14:20:11 116
List top 10 files in filesystem or mount point bigger than 200MB

Specify the size in bytes using the 'c' option for the -size flag. The + sign reads as "bigger than". Then execute du on the list; sort in reverse mode and show the first 10 occurrences. Show Sample Output
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```
675.07  /myfs/sop/infranc/med/20110201/det_med_MOS.txt
393.57  /myfs/sop/inffin/part/20110407/fact_par_201103.accdb
338.03  /myfs/20110501/det_med_MOS.txt
338.02  /myfs/AC/SGE/20110501/EVID.txt
338.00  /myfs/infranc/med/20110601/det_med_EOV.txt
337.96  /myfs/AC/SGE/20110601/EVID.txt
```
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find /myfs -size +209715200c -exec du -m {} \; |sort -nr |head -10

arlequin · 2011-07-07 21:12:46 3
Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir

Use this to find identify if dirs mostly contain large or small files. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
yeslab.org 300.32786885245901639344
theyesmen.org 679.16801687505732016752
```
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parallel echo -n {}"\ "\;echo '$(du -s {} | awk "{print \$1}") / $(find {} | wc -l)' \| bc -l ::: *

unixmonkey8046 · 2011-07-28 12:21:34 4
du and sort to find the biggest directories in defined filesystem

I had the problem that our monitoring showed that the "/" filesystem is >90% full. This command helped me to find out fast which subdirs are the biggest. The system has many NFS-mounts therefore the -x.
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du -x / | sort -rn | less

harpo · 2012-06-26 15:29:26 5
Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head

mesuutt · 2012-06-29 12:43:06 6
Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.
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du --max-depth=1 -h * |sort -n -k 1 |egrep 'M|G'

leonteale · 2013-02-07 18:52:29 4
Sort contents of a directory with human readable output

Show sizes of all files and directories in a directory in size order. du -hs * | sort -hr for reverse order. Taken from http://serverfault.com/questions/62411/how-can-i-sort-du-h-output-by-size Show Sample Output
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```
aegir@tonix:~/platforms/qube-d7/sites/my_site$ du -hs * | sort -h
0	files_source
4.0K	libraries
4.0K	local.settings.php
4.0K	modules
4.0K	themes
8.0K	settings.php
20K	private
304K	drushrc.php
9.1G	files
aegir@tonix:~/platforms/qube-d7/sites/my_site$
```
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du -hs * | sort -h

siliconmeadow · 2013-02-12 15:29:26 8
List directories sorted by (human readable) size
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du -h --time --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

funkjedi · 2013-04-27 03:03:44 6

list the top 15 folders by decreasing size in MB

list the top 15 folders by decreasing size in MB Show Sample Output

du -xB M --max-depth=2 /var | sort -rn | head -n 15

bouktin · 2013-05-23 10:45:21 6

Summary of disk usage, excluding other filesystems, summarised and sorted by size

This command is useful for finding out which directories below the current location use the most space. It is summarised by directory and excludes mounted filesystems. Finally it is sorted by size. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
0       net
0       proc
0       selinux
0       sys
4       media
4       misc
4       mnt
4       root
4       srv
16      lost+found
180     dev
3160    home
7744    bin
14240   sbin
23768   etc
26696   boot
27496   lib64
55144   tmp
137328  lib
881752  var
3046196 usr
3309768 opt
```
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du -xks * | sort -n

rdc · 2013-07-18 16:10:28 13
List subfolders from largest to smallest with sizes in human readable form
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2

du -hd1 | sort -hr

while0pass · 2013-09-08 01:32:23 9
View disk usage
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du -hL --max-depth=1

zluyuer · 2014-10-24 13:49:53 6
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Tested on MacOS and GNU/Linux. It works in dirs containing files starting with '-'. It runs 'du' only once. It sorts according to size. It treats 1K=1000 (and not 1024) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
0 K     Private
4 K     public_html
8 K     mail
44 K    Library
264 K   parallel
8 M     Downloads
10 M    Documents
1 G     foo
```
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du -sk -- * | sort -n | perl -pe '@SI=qw(K M G T P); s:^(\d+?)((\d\d\d)*)\s:$1." ".$SI[((length $2)/3)]."\t":e'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-04-26 08:07:27 10
A sorted summary of disk usage including hidden files and folders

Same result as with 'du -ks .[^.]* * | sort -n' but with size outputs in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
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du -hs .[^.]* * | sort -h

liminal · 2015-05-10 12:19:29 34
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Display ncurses based network monitor

Nload is part of nload package, tested under Debian. Nload display network bandwidth statistics, -u m options stands for MBit unit measure.

Copy files to a remote host with SFTP with a leading dot, then rename them to the real file name

Usage: $ sftp-cp * | sftp user@host:/dir This is useful if there is a process on the remote machine waiting for files in an incoming directory. This way it won't see half-transmitted files if it ignores hidden files.

An alarm clock using xmms2 and at

Nice little alarm clock to wake you up on time (hopefully). You can also do 'echo "vlc path/to/song" | at 6:00

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Stop procrastination on Facebook.com

or echo '127.0.0.1 facebook.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts Do not execute this command if you don't know what you are doing.

Grep inside Vim and navigate results

Will search for the given pattern and build a list of occurrences. Then you can use :copen and :cclose to toggle the list. When browsing the list, ENTER will take you to that line in the file.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

sort monthwise

sort command can sort month-wise (first three letters of each month). See the sample output for clarification. Sorting Stable ? NO. Take note if that matters to you. Sample output suggests that sort performs unstable sorting (see the relative order of two 'feb' entries).

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