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Sort subdirectories by size

Prints the sizes of all the subdirectories (sorted by size), similar to Treesize utility. https://superuser.com/questions/554319/bash-display-each-sub-directory-size-in-a-list-format-using-1-line-command Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
20G   .
10G   ./folder1ing
8G    ./folder2
2G    ./folder3
```
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du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

mayurpant · 2018-01-04 07:31:47 39
List sub dir, sort by size, the biggest at the end, with human presentation

i'm using -x : -x, --one-file-system skip directories on different file systems so mounts points aren't walked trough Show Sample Output
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```
0KiB	./dev
0KiB	./proc
0KiB	./sys
4KiB	./media
4KiB	./mnt
4KiB	./selinux
4KiB	./srv
6KiB	./boot
12KiB	./run
16KiB	./lost+found
48KiB	./tmp
56KiB	./home
792KiB	./opt
852KiB	./root
6MiB	./bin
16MiB	./sbin
22MiB	./lib64
30MiB	./etc
554MiB	./var
633MiB	./lib
1GiB	./usr
2GiB	.
```
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du --max-depth=1 -x -k | sort -n | awk 'function human(x) { s="KMGTEPYZ"; while (x>=1000 && length(s)>1) {x/=1024; s=substr(s,2)} return int(x+0.5) substr(s,1,1)"iB" } {gsub(/^[0-9]+/, human($1)); print}'

bunam · 2018-01-24 21:33:27 26
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

-s summary -h human slightly different : will display side by side the sizes of individual files and of directories in current dir will not display total size of './'
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du -sh *

legec · 2019-01-25 08:09:35 35
Current directory files and subdirectories ordered by size

Very useful for finding the largest files and subdirectories at any given point. Any user can run it from current location just when need to know their largest files and subtdirectories from a certain point down as well. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
4	mvc_example.php
72	caseconverter
80	contact
248	hangman
```
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du -ks * | sort -n

unixmonkey1055 · 2009-02-16 14:18:52 183
top ten of biggest files/dirs in $PWD
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -sm *|sort -rn|head -10

gnawa · 2009-02-19 13:44:14 6
easily find megabyte eating files or directories

Thanks for the submit! My alternative produces summaries only for directories. The original post additionally lists all files in the current directory. Sometimes the files, they just clutter up the output. Once the big directory is located, *then* worry about which file(s) are consuming so much space.
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du -kd | egrep -v "/.*/" | sort -n

rmbjr60 · 2010-03-30 15:40:35 3
List complete size of directories (do not consider hidden directories)
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du --max-depth=1 | grep -v '\.\/\.'

netkavu · 2010-04-10 22:14:49 3
List complete size of directories (do not consider hidden directories)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -sh * | grep -v '\.\/\.'

marcopferreira · 2010-04-10 23:19:46 4
List complete size of directories (do not consider hidden directories)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -sh `ls -p | grep /`

sarcilav · 2010-04-11 02:53:51 11
identify big file

first 10 big file
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du -s * | sort -nr | head

chenge · 2010-05-13 12:21:22 4
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". Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
98M	/var/www/site1.domain.tld/web
11M	/var/www/site2.domain.tld/web
```
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ls -d1a /var/www/*/web | xargs du -hs

DRoBeR · 2010-10-18 17:16:23 3
Find the biggest files

Show the top file size in human readable form
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find -type f | xargs -I{} du -s "{}" | sort -rn | head | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh "{}"

glaudiston · 2011-01-04 11:10:56 3
Find the biggest files
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find -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head

depesz · 2011-01-04 11:38:29 5
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -hs *

crishoj · 2011-01-11 16:26:28 3
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

All folders, human-readable, no subfolder, with a total. Even shorter.
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du -sch *

anarcat · 2011-12-06 18:38:20 5
Sum files of certain extension in given directory

Also shows files as they are found. Only works from a tty.
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echo $(find <directory> -name '*.<extension>' -exec du -s {} \; | tee $(tty) | cut -f1 | tr '\n' '+') 0 | bc

ysangkok · 2012-09-17 22:46:50 11
sort and show disk space (largest first) with human readable sizes
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du -hs `du -sk * | sort -rn | cut -f2-`

unixmonkey62734 · 2013-07-26 05:34:55 7
list each file/directory size in a directory
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ls | xargs -I{} du -sh {}

kenshin54 · 2013-07-28 04:18:25 8
get size of a file
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -hs file-name

bharat · 2014-05-09 07:22:53 7
List directories sorted by size
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du -sh * | sort -h

sergeylukin · 2015-09-14 10:24:06 11
centos list directories sorted by size

centos list directories sorted by size Show Sample Output
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```
du -h --max-depth=1 /home/ | sort -n
```
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du -h --max-depth=1 /home/ | sort -n

erez83 · 2015-09-18 05:59:55 11
Disk usage skipping mount points (even top-level ones)

Other solutions that involve doing du -sx /* are incomplete because they will still descend other top-level filesystems are that mounted directly at "/" because the * expands to explicitly include all files and directories in "/", and du will still traverse them even with -x because you asked it to by supplying the directory name as a parameter (indirectly via "*"). Show Sample Output
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```
4.0K    /mnt
4.0K    /srv
8.0K    /media
16K     /lost+found
7.4M    /etc
25M     /home
83M     /boot
219M    /root
766M    /tmp
2.7G    /usr
8.3G    /opt
11G     /var
```
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for a in /*; do mountpoint -q -- "$a" || du -shx "$a"; done | sort -h

dmmst19 · 2024-02-28 01:43:19 54
Get the size of every directories and files in a path recursively

A simple way using a for loop
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for i in $(ls /the/path); do du -hs /the/path/$i; done

michelem · 2009-02-06 08:44:48 11
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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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while true ; do du -sk testfile ; sleep 10 ; done

Solaris · 2009-08-14 11:39:52 5
find dis1k space
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du -s `find . -maxdepth 1 \! -name '.'` | sort -n | tail

hydhaval · 2009-08-28 00:24:11 6
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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

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check open ports without netstat or lsof

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Get your outgoing IP address

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