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Terminal - Commands using du - 188 results
tar -cf - . | pv -s $(du -sb . | awk '{print $1}') | gzip > out.tgz
2009-12-18 17:09:08
User: opertinicy
Functions: awk du gzip tar
Tags: awk du tar gzip pv progress
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copy working directory and compress it on-the-fly while showing progress

What happens here is we tell tar to create "-c" an archive of all files in current dir "." (recursively) and output the data to stdout "-f -". Next we specify the size "-s" to pv of all files in current dir. The "du -sb . | awk ?{print $1}?" returns number of bytes in current dir, and it gets fed as "-s" parameter to pv. Next we gzip the whole content and output the result to out.tgz file. This way "pv" knows how much data is still left to be processed and shows us that it will take yet another 4 mins 49 secs to finish.

Credit: Peteris Krumins http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/

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du -sch ./*
2009-12-12 05:10:40
User: enderst
Functions: du
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name . -exec du -sh {} +
2009-12-11 14:37:26
User: sorpigal
Functions: du find
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Parsing the output of ls is never a good idea for any reason. Using find this way:

- works with files that have spaces in their names.

- actually lists "sub folders" and not of all files and folders.

- does not break if there are a huge number of files in the current directory.

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du -sh */
2009-12-10 16:19:15
User: guxtavo
Functions: du
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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ls | xargs du -sh
2009-12-10 15:58:05
User: jyro
Functions: du ls 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 -ms * 2>/dev/null |sort -nr|head
2009-11-23 16:06:40
User: yooreck
Functions: du sort
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List the biggest accessible files/dirs in current directory, sorted
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du | sort -nr | cut -f2- | xargs du -hs
2009-11-20 17:14:40
User: unixmonkey7118
Functions: cut du sort xargs
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Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

no fancy grep stuff here.

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dh() { du -ch --max-depth=1 "${@-.}"|sort -h }
2009-10-30 15:30:16
User: gibboris
Functions: du sort
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Sort the size usage of a directory tree by gigabytes, kilobytes, megabytes, then bytes.

Since coreutils 7.6 provides sort -h

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watch -n 60 du /var/log/messages
2009-10-27 14:53:41
User: rbossy
Functions: du watch
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Monitor a file's size
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dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L $pkg | xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'if [ ! -d "{}" ]; then echo "{}"; fi' | tr '\n' '\000' | du -c --files0-from - | tail -1 | sed "s/total/$pkg/"; done
2009-10-12 14:57:54
User: pykler
Functions: bash cut du echo read sed tail tr xargs
Tags: Debian wajig
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List your largest installed packages.

Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the

| sort -rn

which would put the biggest packges on top. That was purposely left out as the command is slightly on the slow side

Also you may need to run this as root as some files can only be checked by du if you can read them ;)

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watch -n60 du /var/log/messages
2009-10-09 18:37:45
User: matrixguy
Functions: du watch
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Monitor a file's size

use "watch" instead of while-loops in these simple cases

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while [ 1 ]; do du /var/log/messages;sleep 60; done
2009-10-09 17:22:19
User: savanik
Functions: du
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Monitor a file's size

Got a file you're generating and you want the size without typing in 'ls -l file' all the time? Use this instead.

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find [path] [expression] -exec du -ab {} \; | awk '{total+=$0}END{print total}'
2009-09-24 17:50:26
User: rehanift
Functions: awk du find
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Sum size of files returned from FIND
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find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.' -execdir du -0 -s {} + | sort -znr | gawk 'BEGIN{ORS=RS="\0";} {sub($1 "\t", ""); print $0;}' | xargs -0 du -hs
2009-09-11 16:07:39
User: ashawley
Functions: du find gawk sort xargs
Tags: sort find du xargs GNU/Linux
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Ultimate current directory usage command

A little bit smaller, faster and should handle files with special characters in the name.

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du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n | cut -d/ -f2 | sed '$d' | while read i; do if [ -f $i ]; then du -h "$i"; else echo "$(du -h --max-depth=0 "$i")/"; fi; done
2009-09-03 20:43:43
User: nickwe
Functions: cut du echo read sed sort
Tags: bash sort sed echo du read while cut
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Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories

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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d|xargs du -a --max-depth=0|sort -rn|cut -d/ -f2|sed '1d'|while read i;do echo "$(du -h --max-depth=0 "$i")/";done;find . -maxdepth 1 -type f|xargs du -a|sort -rn|cut -d/ -f2|sed '$d'|while read i;do du -h "$i";done
2009-09-03 20:33:21
User: nickwe
Functions: cut du echo find read sed sort xargs
Tags: bash sort sed echo find xargs read while cut
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Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals and sort directory and files

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O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"
2009-09-03 11:39:50
User: Viperlin
Functions: du sort
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Ultimate current directory usage command

biggest->small directories, then biggest->smallest files

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du -s `find . -maxdepth 1 \! -name '.'` | sort -n | tail
2009-08-28 00:24:11
User: hydhaval
Functions: du sort
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find dis1k space
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sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | tail -n1
2009-08-27 14:18:47
User: alvinx
Functions: du find sudo tail xargs
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get diskusage of files modified during the last n days

get diskusage of files (in this case logfiles in /var/log) modified during the last n days:

sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -n -type f | xargs du -ch

n -> last modified n*24 hours ago

Numeric arguments can be specified as

+n for greater than n,

-n for less than n,

n for exactly n.

=> so 7*24 hours (about 7 days) is -7

sudo find /var/log/ -mtime -7 -type f | xargs du -ch | tail -n1
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cat filename | tr '\n' '\0' | du -hsc ?files0-from=-
2009-08-21 18:36:49
User: Diluted
Functions: cat du tr
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Have a list of directories in a file, ending with newlines and need to run du on it?

du only accepts lines ending with a NUL, which can be a pain to create. This solves that issue.

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du -sk * |sort -rn |head
2009-08-19 02:31:30
User: realist
Functions: du sort
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Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry
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sudo du -ks $(ls -d */) | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh 2> /dev/null
2009-08-17 22:21:09
User: Code_Bleu
Functions: cut du ls sort sudo xargs
Tags: disk usage
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

This allows the output to be sorted from largest to smallest in human readable format.

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while true ; do du -sk testfile ; sleep 10 ; done
2009-08-14 11:39:52
User: Solaris
Functions: du sleep true
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Lists the size of certain file in every 10 seconds

This command produces the output of "du -sk testfile" in every 10 seconds. You can change the command to be whatever you want.

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du -hd 1
2009-08-10 13:11:22
User: Tuirgin
Functions: du
Tags: disk usage osx
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory

OSX's BSD version of the du command uses the -d argument instead of --max-depth.

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du --max-depth=1
2009-08-08 00:46:29
User: Octave
Functions: du
Tags: disk usage
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory
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