Commands using du (244)
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Prints the sizes of all the subdirectories (sorted by size), similar to Treesize utility. https://superuser.com/questions/554319/bash-display-each-sub-directory-size-in-a-list-format-using-1-line-command Show Sample Output
0du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr -
i'm using -x : -x, --one-file-system skip directories on different file systems so mounts points aren't walked trough Show Sample Output
0du --max-depth=1 -x -k | sort -n | awk 'function human(x) { s="KMGTEPYZ"; while (x>=1000 && length(s)>1) {x/=1024; s=substr(s,2)} return int(x+0.5) substr(s,1,1)"iB" } {gsub(/^[0-9]+/, human($1)); print}' -
-s summary -h human slightly different : will display side by side the sizes of individual files and of directories in current dir will not display total size of './'
0du -sh * -
Very useful for finding the largest files and subdirectories at any given point. Any user can run it from current location just when need to know their largest files and subtdirectories from a certain point down as well. Show Sample Output
-1du -ks * | sort -n -
-1du -sm *|sort -rn|head -10
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Thanks for the submit! My alternative produces summaries only for directories. The original post additionally lists all files in the current directory. Sometimes the files, they just clutter up the output. Once the big directory is located, *then* worry about which file(s) are consuming so much space.
-1du -kd | egrep -v "/.*/" | sort -n -
-1du --max-depth=1 | grep -v '\.\/\.'
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-1du -sh * | grep -v '\.\/\.'
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-1du -sh `ls -p | grep /`
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first 10 big file
-1du -s * | sort -nr | head -
Calculate foldersize for each website on an ISPConfig environment. It doesn't add the jail size. Just the "public_html". Show Sample Output
-1ls -d1a /var/www/*/web | xargs du -hs -
Show the top file size in human readable form
-1find -type f | xargs -I{} du -s "{}" | sort -rn | head | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh "{}" -
-1find -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head
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-1du -hs *
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All folders, human-readable, no subfolder, with a total. Even shorter.
-1du -sch * -
Also shows files as they are found. Only works from a tty.
-1echo $(find <directory> -name '*.<extension>' -exec du -s {} \; | tee $(tty) | cut -f1 | tr '\n' '+') 0 | bc -
-1du -hs `du -sk * | sort -rn | cut -f2-`
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-1ls | xargs -I{} du -sh {}
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-1du -hs file-name
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-1du -sh * | sort -h
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centos list directories sorted by size Show Sample Output
-1du -h --max-depth=1 /home/ | sort -n -
Other solutions that involve doing
du -sx /*are incomplete because they will still descend other top-level filesystems are that mounted directly at "/" because the * expands to explicitly include all files and directories in "/", and du will still traverse them even with -x because you asked it to by supplying the directory name as a parameter (indirectly via "*"). Show Sample Output-1for a in /*; do mountpoint -q -- "$a" || du -shx "$a"; done | sort -h -
A simple way using a for loop
-2for i in $(ls /the/path); do du -hs /the/path/$i; done -
This command produces the output of "du -sk testfile" in every 10 seconds. You can change the command to be whatever you want.
-2while true ; do du -sk testfile ; sleep 10 ; done -
-2du -s `find . -maxdepth 1 \! -name '.'` | sort -n | tail
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