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Terminal - Commands using du - 210 results

du -g | perl -ne 'print if (tr#/#/# == <maximum depth>)'

2014-02-15 07:33:36

User: RAKK

Functions: du perl

Tags: perl du unix aix

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IBM AIX: List directory size with max depth

Lists directory size up to a maximum traversal depth on systems like IBM AIX, where the du command doesn't have Linux's --max-depth option. AIX's du uses -g to display directory size on gigabytes, -m to use megabytes, and -k to use kilobytes. tr### is a Perl function that replaces characters and returns the amount of changed characters, so in this case it will return how many slashes there were in the full path name.

find . -name "pattern" -type f -exec du -ch {} + | tail -n1

2014-01-17 03:26:26

User: stecman

Functions: du find tail

Tags: size find calculate

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Find files and calculate size of result in shell

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du -xm --max-depth 2 /var/log | sort -rn | head

2013-12-16 13:29:33

User: srvesh

Functions: du sort

Tags: Filesystem disk usage size

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Which files/dirs waste my disk space

this will give u the details in MB's; from high to low....

du -Sh | sort -h | tail

2013-11-27 17:50:11

User: pdxdoughnut

Functions: du sort

Tags: Filesystem disk usage size

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Which files/dirs waste my disk space

I added -S to du so that you don't include /foo/bar/baz.iso in /foo, and change sorts -n to -h so that it can properly sort the human readable sizes.

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du -ah | sort -h | tail

2013-11-26 12:56:58

User: jedifu

Functions: du sort

Tags: Filesystem disk usage size

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Which files/dirs waste my disk space

Shows the 10 biggest files/dirs

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du -hs *|sort -h

2013-11-21 10:14:47

User: felixhorro

Functions: du sort

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

Sorted in human readable format.

du -k ~/* | awk '$1 > 50000' | sort -nr

2013-11-12 15:42:52

User: jmorganwalker

Functions: awk du sort

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Find directories over 50MB in the home directory

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find /Users/jpn/.ievms/ -type f -print0| xargs -0 du -sh

2013-10-16 09:54:19

User: unixmonkey39631

Functions: du find xargs

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rm filenames with spaces

When you do a ls -1 | xargs rm it wouldn't workd because those files have spaces. So you must use

find -print0 and xargs -0

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du -ah | sort -hr | head -n50 | cat -n

2013-10-01 10:16:13

User: rgregor

Functions: cat du head sort

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Display a numbered list of 50 biggets files sorted by size (human readable)

du -hd1 | sort -hr

2013-09-08 01:32:23

User: while0pass

Functions: du sort

Tags: bash

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List subfolders from largest to smallest with sizes in human readable form

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brew cleanup -n | awk '{print $3}' | xargs du -s | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'

2013-08-24 07:50:20

User: jaapie

Functions: awk du xargs

Tags: brew

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Get count of kilobytes brew cleanup would free

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find -name *.bak -print0 | du -hc --files0-from=-

2013-08-23 14:15:33

User: muffl0n

Functions: du find

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Show sizes and calculate sum of all files found by find

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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

-1

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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

-1

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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 ,

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