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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

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du -hs *
2012-12-11 09:51:21
User: jako
Functions: du
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

* gets parsed so all

-h human readable

-s summary

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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
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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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echo $(find <directory> -name '*.<extension>' -exec du -s {} \; | tee $(tty) | cut -f1 | tr '\n' '+') 0 | bc
2012-09-17 22:46:50
User: ysangkok
Functions: cut du echo find tee tr
Tags: find du tty-dependant
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Sum files of certain extension in given directory

Also shows files as they are found. Only works from a tty.

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sudo -s du -sm /Users/* | sort -nr | head -n 10
2012-09-13 10:15:23
User: mematron
Functions: du head sort sudo
Tags: disk usage du users
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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

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du -sh /home/*|sort -rh|head -n 10
2012-09-12 11:54:06
User: toaster
Functions: du head sort
Tags: disk usage sort du users
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Find the 10 lusers winners of the "I take up the most disk space" award

the -h option of du and sort (on appropriate distrib) makes output "Human" readable and still sorted by "reversed size" (sort -rh)

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du -sm /home/* | sort -nr | head -n 10
2012-09-11 13:09:22
User: dan
Functions: du head sort
Tags: disk usage du users
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Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space
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du -h --max-depth=1
2012-08-07 13:05:43
User: drerik
Functions: du
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Gets directory size on sub directories in current dir with human readable size
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find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -hr | head
2012-08-03 04:24:36
User: mrfixit42
Functions: du find sort
Tags: sort find file size
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Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

"-exec" ftw.

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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head -10
2012-06-30 10:03:31
User: netaxiz
Functions: du find head sort xargs
Tags: sort find file size
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Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head
2012-06-29 12:43:06
User: mesuutt
Functions: du find sort xargs
Tags: sort find file size
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Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size
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for i in G M K; do du -hx /var/ | grep [0-9]$i | sort -nr -k 1; done | less
2012-06-26 22:57:17
User: jlaunay
Functions: du grep sort
Tags: du
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du and sort to find the biggest directories in defined filesystem

This command give a human readable result without messing up the sorting.

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du -x / | sort -rn | less
2012-06-26 15:29:26
User: harpo
Functions: du sort
Tags: du
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du and sort to find the biggest directories in defined filesystem

I had the problem that our monitoring showed that the "/" filesystem is >90% full. This command helped me to find out fast which subdirs are the biggest. The system has many NFS-mounts therefore the -x.

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du -hs * | sort -h
2012-06-15 14:13:06
User: Woems
Functions: du sort
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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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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