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Commands using du

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find . -size +100000k -exec du -h {} \;
2011-01-09 19:42:01
User: binarysys
Functions: du find
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Recursively search for large files. Show size and location.
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find -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head
2011-01-04 11:38:29
User: depesz
Functions: du find sort
Tags: size find filesize
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Find the biggest files
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find -type f | xargs -I{} du -s "{}" | sort -rn | head | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh "{}"
2011-01-04 11:10:56
User: glaudiston
Functions: cut du find head sort xargs
Tags: size find filesize
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Find the biggest files

Show the top file size in human readable form

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find -type f | xargs -I{} du -sk "{}" | sort -rn | head
2011-01-04 11:10:02
User: glaudiston
Functions: du find sort xargs
Tags: size find filesize
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Find the biggest files

Show the top 10 file size

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du -sk * | sort -rn | head
2011-01-03 10:49:40
User: EBAH
Functions: du sort
Tags: size find filesize
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Find the biggest files

Also:

* find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

* find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $5 "\t" $9}' | sort -n -r | head -5

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find . -type f -size +20000k -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | awk -F"\t" '{printf "%s : %s\n", $2, $1}'
2010-12-15 17:51:09
User: depesz
Functions: awk du find xargs
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Find Files over 20Meg

Output made so that it will match initial suggestion for this task. Personally, I think that output of du -h is more readable.

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du -h |grep -P "^\S*G"
2010-12-13 15:26:31
User: girish_patel
Functions: du grep
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List Big Files/Directories

This Command will list files & folders which are in GBs.

G can be replace by M to get files in MBs.

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alias duh='dulist=$(du -sh */); for i in T G M K; do printf "$dulist"|egrep "^[0-9\.]+$i" | sort -rn; done'
2010-12-07 11:11:26
User: forcefsck
Functions: alias du egrep printf sort
Tags: disk usage
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

Alias to produce a list of all subdir sizes in current dir, in reverse order and human readable units. du is executed only once. Remove the slash after the asterisk to include files.

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du . -mak|sort -n|tail -10
2010-12-03 19:28:55
User: georgesdev
Functions: du sort tail
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List 10 largest directories in current directory

du -m option to not go across mounts (you usually want to run that command to find what to destroy in that partition)

-a option to also list . files

-k to display in kilobytes

sort -n to sort in numerical order, biggest files last

tail -10 to only display biggest 10

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du -hs */ | sort -hr | head
2010-11-28 15:08:01
User: eronisko
Functions: du sort
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List 10 largest directories in current directory

Directories listed in human-readable format

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find /home/ -type f -exec du {} \; 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 10 | xargs -n 1 du -h 2>/dev/null
2010-11-10 07:24:17
User: mxc
Functions: du find sort tail xargs
Tags: disk usage
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FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space

This combines the above two command into one. Note that you can leave off the last two commands and simply run the command as

"find /home/ -type f -exec du {} \; 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 10"

The last two commands above just convert the output into human readable format.

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find / -type f -size +100M -exec du {} \; | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f 2
2010-11-09 18:34:49
User: PhillipNordwall
Functions: cut du find sort tail
Tags: disk usage
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FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space
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find . -type f -size +500M -exec du {} \; | sort -n
2010-11-09 18:15:44
User: PhillipNordwall
Functions: du find sort
Tags: size find
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find all file larger than 500M

Greater than 500M and sorted by size.

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find / -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs du 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 10 | cut -f 2 | xargs -n 1 du -h
2010-11-09 13:45:11
User: mxc
Functions: cut du find sort tail xargs
Tags: disk usage
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FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space

Often you need to find the files that are taking up the most disk space in order to free up space asap. This script can be run on the enitre filesystem as root or on a home directory to find the largest files.

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du -sh ~/*
2010-11-05 10:20:16
User: unixmonkey13748
Functions: du
Tags: size directories df
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Display the size of all your home's directories

Display the size (human reading) of all the directories in your home path (~).

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du -b filename
2010-10-30 19:27:18
User: j_melis
Functions: du
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Simplest way to get size (in bytes) of a file
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ls -d1a /var/www/*/web | xargs du -hs
2010-10-18 17:16:23
User: DRoBeR
Functions: du ls xargs
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Calculate foldersize for each website on an ISPConfig environment

Calculate foldersize for each website on an ISPConfig environment. It doesn't add the jail size. Just the "public_html".

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du --max-depth=1|sort -n|cut -f2|tr '\n' '\0'|xargs -0 du -sh 2>/dev/null
2010-10-08 12:06:50
User: j_melis
Functions: cut du sort tr xargs
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n
2010-10-01 06:09:56
User: ArturGajowy
Functions: du sort
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List the size of all sub folders and files from the current location, with sorting
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sudo du -sm * | sort -n
2010-09-24 17:56:41
User: wabi
Functions: du sort sudo
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list files/directories in current directory -- sorted by file size in MB

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'

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while true; do du -s <file_or_directory>; sleep <time_interval>; done
2010-08-24 19:55:13
User: potatoface
Functions: du sleep
Tags: file directory directory size,du
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continuously check size of files or directories

very handy if you copy or download a/some file(s) and want to know how big it is at the moment

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svn status | awk '{print $2}' | xargs du | sort -n | tail
2010-08-05 17:56:55
User: maarten
Functions: awk du sort xargs
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make sure you don't add large file to your repository
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while (( 1==1 )); do du -c . >> output.log; sleep 2; done; tail -f output.log
2010-07-12 17:23:45
User: aceiro
Functions: du sleep tail
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show space used by postgres

this command shows the space used in postgres directory.

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du -shc .[^.]* * | grep [MG]
2010-07-06 10:13:18
User: rubo77
Functions: du grep
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show large folders and files, including hidden

shows only folders, that are MB or GB in total size

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find . -type d -exec du -sk '{}' \; | awk '($1 < 2048) {print $2}'
2010-06-16 11:53:14
User: putnamhill
Functions: awk du find
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list folders containing less than 2 MB of data

Just shortened the awk a bit and removed sed. Edit: I'm assuming there are no spaces in the path. To support white space in pathname try:

awk '($1 < 2048) {sub(/^[0-9]+[ \t]+/,""); print $0}'
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