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Commands using du

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du -cah /path/to/folder/ | grep total
2012-05-29 23:30:03
User: ekinertac
Functions: du grep
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human readable total directory size
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head -20
2012-03-30 10:21:12
User: flatcap
Functions: du find head sort xargs
Tags: sort find du xargs head,
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Recursively find top 20 largest files (> 1MB) sort human readable format

Search for files and list the 20 largest.

find . -type f

gives us a list of file, recursively, starting from here (.)

-print0 | xargs -0 du -h

separate the names of files with NULL characters, so we're not confused by spaces

then xargs run the du command to find their size (in human-readable form -- 64M not 64123456)

| sort -hr

use sort to arrange the list in size order. sort -h knows that 1M is bigger than 9K

| head -20

finally only select the top twenty out of the list

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find . -mount -type f -printf "%k %p\n" | sort -rg | cut -d \ -f 2- | xargs -I {} du -sh {} | less
2012-03-30 07:37:52
User: bashrc
Functions: cut du find sort xargs
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Recursively find top 20 largest files (> 1MB) sort human readable format

from my bashrc ;)

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du -s $(ls -l | grep '^d' | awk '{print $9}') | sort -nr
2012-03-15 09:04:13
User: j3ffyang
Functions: awk du grep ls sort
Tags: sort du
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Find and sort out folders by size
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du -k | sort -n | perl -ne 'if ( /^(\d+)\s+(.*$)/){$l=log($1+.1);$m=int($l/log(1024)); printf ("%6.1f\t%s\t%25s %s\n",($1/(2**(10*$m))),(("K","M","G","T","P")[$m]),"*"x (1.5*$l),$2);}' | more
2012-02-07 15:49:19
User: Q_Element
Functions: du perl printf sort
Tags: perl, file sizes one line
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One line Perl Script to determine the largest file sizes on a Linux Server

This one line Perl script will display the smallest to the largest files sizes in all directories on a server.

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du --max-depth=1 | sort -nr | awk ' BEGIN { split("KB,MB,GB,TB", Units, ","); } { u = 1; while ($1 >= 1024) { $1 = $1 / 1024; u += 1 } $1 = sprintf("%.1f %s", $1, Units[u]); print $0; } '
2011-12-08 17:43:09
User: threv
Functions: awk du sort
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Show total size of each subdirectory, broken down by KB,MB,GB,TB
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du -ms * | sort -nr
2011-12-06 22:33:52
User: ronocdh
Functions: du sort
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Sort all files and directories by size, rounded to the nearest megabyte. (Substitute custom path for *.)
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du -sch *
2011-12-06 18:38:20
User: anarcat
Functions: du
Tags: space du disk
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

All folders, human-readable, no subfolder, with a total. Even shorter.

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t=$(df|awk 'NR!=1{sum+=$2}END{print sum}');sudo du / --max-depth=1|sed '$d'|sort -rn -k1 | awk -v t=$t 'OFMT="%d" {M=64; for (a=0;a<$1;a++){if (a>c){c=a}}br=a/c;b=M*br;for(x=0;x<b;x++){printf "\033[1;31m" "|" "\033[0m"}print " "$2" "(a/t*100)"% total"}'
2011-12-01 01:21:11
User: kevinquinnyo
Functions: awk du sed sort sudo
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du with colored bar graph

i'm using gawk, you may get varying mileage with other varieties. You might want to change the / after du to say, /home/ or /var or something, otherwise this command might take quite some time to complete. Sorry it's so obsfucated, I had to turn a script into a one-liner under 255 characters for commandlinefu. Note: the bar ratio is relative, so the highest ratio of the total disk, "anchors" the rest of the graph. EDIT: the math was slightly wrong, fixed it. Also, made it compliant with older versions of df.

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du -sh * | sort -rh | head
2011-11-16 06:01:02
User: sirex
Functions: du sort
Tags: du
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Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry

This command simply outputs 10 files in human readable, that takes most space on your disk in current directory.

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du -h --max-depth=1 |sort -rh
2011-11-15 20:30:00
User: jambino
Functions: du sort
Tags: sort du human-readable
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sort the output of the 'du' command by largest first, using human readable output.

In this case I'm just grabbing the next level of subdirectories (and same level regular files) with the --max-depth=1 flag. leaving out that flag will just give you finer resolution. Note that you have to use the -h switch with both 'du' and with 'sort.'

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du -h | sort -hr
2011-11-06 23:15:36
User: mooselimb
Functions: du sort
Tags: disk usage size sort du directories
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

as per eightmillion's comment.

Simply economical :)

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du -sh *
2011-11-02 16:24:05
User: JeremyinNC
Functions: du
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

6 characters counting whitespace!

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du -sh `pwd`
2011-10-30 08:47:23
User: djkee
Functions: du
Tags: size du pwd
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Show size of in MB of the current directory.

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.

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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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du -h / | grep -w "[0-9]*G"
2011-07-23 19:02:11
User: pashutinsky
Functions: du grep
Tags: Filesystem disk usage size
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Which files/dirs waste my disk space
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find /myfs -size +209715200c -exec du -m {} \; |sort -nr |head -10
2011-07-07 21:12:46
User: arlequin
Functions: du find head sort
Tags: Linux size find unix ksh aix korn shell
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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.

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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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du -scb
2011-06-27 14:20:11
User: bbbco
Functions: du
Tags: du
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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.

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du -kh --max-depth=1 | sort -n |head
2011-04-26 13:32:21
User: cyberion11
Functions: du sort
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get biggest directories
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du --max-depth=1 -B M |sort -rn
2011-04-12 15:01:12
User: unixmonkey20397
Functions: du sort
Tags: bash du sh
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simple du command to give size of next level of subfolder in MB

If you're only using -m or -k, you will need to remember they are either in Megabyte or kilobyte forms. So by using -B, it gives you the unit of the size measurement, which helps you from reading the result faster. You can try with -B K as well.

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du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr
2011-04-07 18:01:18
User: splante
Functions: du sort
Tags: sort du
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

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!

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find . -name '*.xml' -type f -print | xargs du -ch
2011-03-22 00:47:42
User: nathwill
Functions: du find xargs
Tags: find du type
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get disk usage sum for files of type

print sum of disk usage for filetype within current dir and subdirs

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du -hs *
2011-01-11 16:26:28
User: crishoj
Functions: du
Tags: concise
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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