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Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space

In OSX you would have to make sure that you "sudo -s" your way to happiness since it will give a few "Permission denied" errors before finally spitting out the results. In OSX the directory structure has to start with the "Users" Directory then it will recursively perform the operation. Your Lord and master, Mematron Show Sample Output
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```
19234	/Users/mematron
3	/Users/Shared
1	/Users/n00b
1	/Users/fignewton
1	/Users/spam
0	/Users/akira
```
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sudo -s du -sm /Users/* | sort -nr | head -n 10

mematron · 2012-09-13 10:15:23 4
Get top N files in X directory

You can simply run "largest", and list the top 10 files/directories in ./, or you can pass two parameters, the first being the directory, the 2nd being the limit of files to display. Best off putting this in your bashrc or bash_profile file Show Sample Output
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```
$ largest
Getting top 10 largest files in ./
711M	./Havoc.2005.UNRATED.DVDRip.XviD-PuRE
719M	./Lincoln 2012
799M	./[ www.UsaBit.com ] - Here Comes the Boom (2012) BluRay 720p 800MB Ganool.mkv
950M	./Watchmen
1.2G	./Sucker Punch
1.4G	./The Buried Life
1.4G	./Stop-Loss
2.5G	./Django Unchained 2012 DVDSCR X264 AAC-P2P
 14G	./Justified Season 2 Complete 720p
 15G	./Justified Season 1 Completed 720p
```
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largest() { dir=${1:-"./"}; count=${2:-"10"}; echo "Getting top $count largest files in $dir"; du -sx "$dir/"* | sort -nk 1 | tail -n $count | cut -f2 | xargs -I file du -shx file; }

jhyland87 · 2013-01-21 09:45:21 7
Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.

Enhanced version: fixes sorting by human readable numbers, and filters out non MB or GB entries that have a G or an M in their name.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du --max-depth=1 -h * |sort -h -k 1 |egrep '(M|G)\s'

TerDale · 2013-02-14 08:56:56 6
List the Sizes of Folders and Directories

I wanted an easy way to list out the sizes of directories and all of the contents of those directories recursively. Show Sample Output
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```
Sample Output: 
209G    /mnt/share/data
2.4G    /mnt/share/Backups
54G     /mnt/share/Bin
4.8G    /mnt/share/Library
270G    /mnt/share/
```
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du -h --max-depth=1 /path/folder/

ene2002 · 2013-07-09 19:56:13 105
List the Sizes of Folders and Directories
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du -hs /path/to/folder/*

rxd · 2013-07-13 20:22:18 8
directory size with subdirectories, sorted list
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1

du -m --max-depth=1 [DIR] | sort -nr

Paulus · 2013-07-26 07:04:41 12
Display the human-readable sizes of all files and folders in the current directory with 3 decimal places

To sort the list by file/directory size, insert `sort -n |` before `awk`. Show Sample Output
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```
   9.543 MiB	bin
   4.000 kiB	boot
  28.323 kiB	dev
  66.523 MiB	etc
 151.247 GiB	home
  17.196 MiB	lib
  17.196 MiB	lib64
   4.000 kiB	media
   4.000 kiB	mnt
   8.000 kiB	opt
 376.264 MiB	root
   4.358 MiB	sbin
   4.000 kiB	selinux
   4.000 kiB	srv
  10.098 MiB	sys
   2.693 MiB	tmp
   2.244 GiB	usr
  72.920 GiB	var
 226.903 GiB	total
```
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du -Lsbc * |awk 'function hr(bytes){hum[1024**4]="TiB";hum[1024**3]="GiB";hum[1024**2]="MiB";hum[1024]="kiB";for(x=1024**4;x>=1024;x/=1024){if(bytes>=x){return sprintf("%8.3f %s",bytes/x,hum[x]);}}return sprintf("%4d B",bytes);}{print hr($1) "\t" $2}'

nst · 2013-08-18 02:28:18 9
Get count of kilobytes brew cleanup would free
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brew cleanup -n | awk '{print $3}' | xargs du -s | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'

jaapie · 2013-08-24 07:50:20 7
Find directories over 50MB in the home directory
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du -k ~/* | awk '$1 > 50000' | sort -nr

jmorganwalker · 2013-11-12 15:42:52 11
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Sorted in human readable format. Show Sample Output
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```
16K	conf.d
32K	mods-available
72K	cli
76K	cgi
148K	apache2
```
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du -hs *|sort -h

felixhorro · 2013-11-21 10:14:47 19
Which files/dirs waste my disk space

I added -S to du so that you don't include /foo/bar/baz.iso in /foo, and change sorts -n to -h so that it can properly sort the human readable sizes.
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du -Sh | sort -h | tail

pdxdoughnut · 2013-11-27 17:50:11 7
List all duplicate directories

Very quick! Based only on the content sizes and the character counts of filenames. If both numbers are equal then two (or more) directories seem to be most likely identical. if in doubt apply: diff -rq path_to_dir1 path_to_dir2 AWK function taken from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2912224/find-duplicates-lines-based-on-some-delimited-fileds-on-line Show Sample Output
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```
215 1320 ./hwebcam048.kopija
215 1320 ./hwebcam048
24 16 ./ac3dlx/lib/tk8.5/ttk/CVS
24 16 ./ac3dlx/lib/tk8.4/CVS
24 16 ./ac3dlx/tcl/CVS
```
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find . -type d| while read i; do echo $(ls -1 "$i"|wc -m) $(du -s "$i"); done|sort -s -n -k1,1 -k2,2 |awk -F'[ \t]+' '{ idx=$1$2; if (array[idx] == 1) {print} else if (array[idx]) {print array[idx]; print; array[idx]=1} else {array[idx]=$0}}'

knoppix5 · 2014-02-25 22:50:09 27
Sort content of a directory including hidden files.

This command sorts the content including hidden files in human readable format of the current directory. Show Sample Output
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```
/etc/pki/tls#
0	cert.pem
8.0K	private
12K	openssl.cnf
28K	misc
1.2M	certs
1.3M	total
```
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du -sch .[!.]* * |sort -h

krizzo · 2014-07-17 21:45:46 16
Human readable directory sizes for current directory, sorted descending
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du -hsx * | sort -rh

Tatsh · 2015-04-02 21:30:03 12
Recursively find disk usage, sort, and make human readable (for systems without human-readable sort command)

Recursively find disk usage, sort, and make human readable: * For systems without human-readable sort command * awk, not perl Show Sample Output
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```
   3.148 MB	 ./arch/cris/include
   3.426 MB	 ./arch/cris
   3.539 MB	 ./arch/blackfin
   4.539 MB	 ./arch/mips/include/asm
   4.543 MB	 ./arch/mips/include
   5.398 MB	 ./arch/mips
   9.543 MB	 ./drivers
  11.230 MB	 ./arch/arm
  13.852 MB	 ./include/linux
  21.820 MB	 ./include
  46.758 MB	 ./arch
  84.902 MB	 .
```
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du -x ${SYMLINKS} -k "$@" | sort -n | tail -100 | awk 'BEGIN { logx = log(1024); size[0]= "KB"; size[1]= "MB"; size[2]= "GB"; size[3]= "TB" } { x = $1; $1 = ""; v = int(log(x)/logx); printf ("%8.3f %s\t%s\n",x/(1024^v), size[v], $0) }'

dpanofsky · 2015-08-27 23:16:25 98
Copy a folder with progress with pv
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SRC="/source/folder"; TRG="/target/folder/"; tar cf - "$SRC" | pv -s $(du -sb "$SRC" | cut -f1) | tar xf - -C "$TRG"

glaudiston · 2015-11-20 22:55:44 13
Find top 10 largest files
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du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10

zluyuer · 2016-05-27 04:05:08 12
Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir

Shorter version using --tag
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parallel --tag echo '$(du -s {} | awk "{print \$1}") / $(find {} | wc -l)' \| bc -l ::: *

IndustrialJoe · 2018-07-05 18:33:21 275
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Simple and easy to remember. -h is human, -d1 = depth 1. disk usage, human, depth 1 Show Sample Output
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```
27M	./Stuff
808K	./Configs
1.1M	./comemierda
232M	.
```
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du -h -d1

cbergeron · 2019-01-22 05:30:24 35
du command without showing other mounted file systems
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du -h --max-depth=1 --one-file-system /

Ryangillan · 2019-04-02 22:47:24 34
get total of inodes of root partition
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du --total --inodes / | egrep 'total$'

aysadk · 2019-07-02 09:08:35 38
Print total size of specified files and subdirectories
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du -sk * | awk '{print $1} END {print "[+z1<y]sy\nlyx\np"}' | dc

Xunil · 2009-02-18 22:45:22 5
Remove all directories less than 1 MB in size in or below current directory
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find . -type d -execdir du -sh '{}' ';' | grep -E "[0-9]+K" | sed 's/^[0-9\.]\+K[\t ]\+//' | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 rm -rf

jdunn · 2009-02-20 19:44:49 14
Summarize size of all files of given type in all subdirectories (in bytes)

This example summarize size of all pdf files in /tmp directory and its subdirectories (in bytes). Replace "/tmp" with directory path of your choice and "\*pdf" or even "-iname \*pdf" with your own pattern to match specific type of files. You can replace also parameter for du to count kilo or megabytes, but because of du rounding the sum will not be correct (especially with lot of small files and megabytes counting). In some cases you could probably use sth like this: du -cb `find /tmp -type f -iname \*pdf`|tail -n 1 But be aware that this second command CANNOT count files with spaces in their names and it will cheat you, if there are some files matching the pattern that you don't have rights to read. The first oneliner is resistant to such problems (it will not count sizes of files which you cant read but will give you correct sum of rest of them). Show Sample Output
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```
sum=16173037
```
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SUM=0; for FILESIZE in `find /tmp -type f -iname \*pdf -exec du -b {} \; 2>/dev/null | cut -f1` ; do (( SUM += $FILESIZE )) ; done ; echo "sum=$SUM"

alcik · 2009-03-05 17:16:52 8
Current sub-folders sizes

Show Sample Output
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```
32K     sub-dir1
32K     sub-dir2
32K     sub-dir3
17M     sub-dir4
508K    sub-dir5
```
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du -sh *

haithamg · 2009-03-06 16:44:07 5
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list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Hold off any screensavers/timeouts

Moves the mouse 1 pixel down and to the right, then immediately back again, every 4 minutes. This keeps screensavers from turning on. I have used this extensively and I've never even noticed the mouse movement because it is so subtle.

Scans for open ports using telnet

list all crontabs for users

additionally use "find /etc/cron*" for cronscripts

Print all 256 colors for testing TERM or for a quick reference

This is super fast and an easy way to test your terminal for 256 color support. Unlike alot of info about changing colors in the terminal, this uses the ncurses termcap/terminfo database to determine the escape codes used to generate the colors for a specific TERM. That means you can switch your terminal and then run this to check the real output. $ tset xterm-256color at any rate that is some super lean code! Here it is in function form to stick in your .bash_profile aa_256 () { ( x=`tput op` y=`printf %$((${COLUMNS}-6))s`; for i in {0..256}; do o=00$i; echo -e ${o:${#o}-3:3} `tput setaf $i;tput setab $i`${y// /=}$x; done ) } From my bash_profile: http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

display a smiling smiley if the command succeeded and a sad smiley if the command failed

you could save the code between if and fi to a shell script named smiley.sh with the first argument as and then do a smiley.sh to see if the command succeeded. a bit needless but who cares ;)

Find the process you are looking for minus the grepped one

preferred way to query ps for a specific process name (not supported with all flavors of ps, but will work on just about any linux afaik)

Update all packages installed via homebrew

As of March 7, 2012: $ brew update - downloads upgraded formulas $ brew upgrade [FORMULA...] - upgrades the specified formulas $ brew outdated - lists outdated installations Note updating all packages may take an excruciatingly long time. You might consider a discriminating approach: run `brew outdated` and select specific packages needing an upgrade. For more information see homebrew's git repository: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

Get CPU thermal data on MacOS

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