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Terminal - Commands using du - 198 results

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}'

2013-08-18 02:28:18

User: nst

Functions: awk du

Tags: du filesize

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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`.

ls | xargs -I{} du -sh {}

2013-07-28 04:18:25

User: kenshin54

Functions: du ls xargs

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list each file/directory size in a directory

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

2013-07-26 07:04:41

User: Paulus

Functions: du sort

Tags: bash Linux system

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directory size with subdirectories, sorted list

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du -hs `du -sk * | sort -rn | cut -f2-`

2013-07-26 05:34:55

User: unixmonkey62734

Functions: cut du sort

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sort and show disk space (largest first) with human readable sizes

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du -xks * | sort -n

2013-07-18 16:10:28

User: rdc

Functions: du sort

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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.

du -hs /path/to/folder/*

2013-07-13 20:22:18

User: rxd

Functions: du

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List the Sizes of Folders and Directories

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du -h --max-depth=1 /path/folder/

2013-07-09 19:56:13

User: ene2002

Functions: du

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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.

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} | sort -rn

2013-06-26 02:08:21

User: noah

Functions: cut du find sort tail xargs

Tags: du usage disk

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find the 10 largest directories

http://superuser.com/questions/9847/linux-utility-for-finding-the-largest-files-directories

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du -mx [directory] | grep -P '^\d{4}' | sort -rn

2013-05-24 09:52:41

User: mc0e

Functions: du grep sort

Tags: bash Linux du

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list the top 15 folders by decreasing size in MB

I don't like doing a massive sort on all the directory names just to get a small set of them. the above shows a sorted list of all directories over 1GB. use head as well if you want.

du's "-x" flag limits this to one file system. That's mostly useful when you run it on "/" but don't want "/proc" and "/dev" and so forth. Remember though that it will also exclude "/home" or "/var" if those are separate partitions.

the "-a" option is often useful too, for listing large files as well as large directories. Might be slower.

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

2013-05-23 10:45:21

User: bouktin

Functions: du head sort

Tags: bash Linux du

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list the top 15 folders by decreasing size in MB

du -had 1 | sort -h

2013-05-13 11:07:48

User: unixmonkey44446

Functions: du sort

Tags: size file folder human-readable

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Display sorted, human readable list of file and folders sizes in your current working directory

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du -h --time --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

2013-04-27 03:03:44

User: funkjedi

Functions: du sort

Tags: directories directory size,du

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List directories sorted by (human readable) size

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du -h

2013-04-22 03:41:20

User: datamining

Functions: du

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-h means human readable

h　means human readable ,

du --max-depth=1 -h * |sort -h -k 1 |egrep '(M|G)\s'

2013-02-14 08:56:56

User: TerDale

Functions: du egrep sort

Tags: disk usage size sort hidden

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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.

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ls -a | du --max-depth=1 -h 2>/dev/null |sort -h

2013-02-13 12:28:47

User: majar

Functions: du ls sort

Tags: disk usage size sort hidden

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Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.

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du -hs * | sort -h

2013-02-12 15:29:26

User: siliconmeadow

Functions: du sort

Tags: disk usage

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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

du --max-depth=1 -h * |sort -n -k 1 |egrep 'M|G'

2013-02-07 18:52:29

User: leonteale

Functions: du egrep sort

Tags: disk usage size sort hidden

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Shows size of dirs and files, hidden or not, sorted.

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sudo dd if=/dev/sdc bs=4096 | pv -s `sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/sdc && du -sb /media/sdc/ |awk '{print $1}' && sudo umount /media/sdc`| sudo dd bs=4096 of=~/USB_BLACK_BACKUP.IMG

2013-02-06 09:29:10

User: juanmi

Functions: awk dd du mount sudo umount

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dd with progress bar and statistics to gzipped image

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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; }

2013-01-21 09:45:21

User: jhyland87

Functions: cut du echo file sort tail xargs

Tags: du file size file sizes

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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

du . | sort -nr | awk '{split("KB MB GB TB", arr); idx=1; while ( $1 > 1024 ) { $1/=1024; idx++} printf "%10.2f",$1; print " " arr[idx] "\t" $2}' | head -25

2012-12-03 02:59:13

User: agas

Functions: awk du head printf sort

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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Lists the size in human readable form and lists the top 25 biggest directories/files

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du -sh *

2012-11-28 17:07:55

User: RedFox

Functions: du

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Sum of directories

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du -sh

2012-11-28 17:07:08

User: RedFox

Functions: du

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Total sum of directories

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du -hd1 |sort -h

2012-11-27 22:18:10

User: wrigleyster

Functions: du sort

Tags: du

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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

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du -sm /home/* | sort -n | tail -10

2012-10-11 13:58:30

User: bertatum

Functions: du sort tail

Tags: disk usage du users

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Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space

without reverse...

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find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs du -sh

2012-09-26 14:58:27

User: unixmonkey39631

Functions: du find xargs

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Size for all directories inside the current one

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