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

Terminal - List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
du -h --max-depth=1
2009-02-05 14:37:24
User: PeekNPoke
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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There are 4 alternatives - vote for the best!

Terminal - Alternatives
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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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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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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du --max-depth=1|sort -n|cut -f2|tr '\n' '\0'|xargs -0 du -sh 2>/dev/null
2010-10-08 12:06:50
User: j_melis
Functions: cut du sort tr 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 -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n
2010-10-01 06:09:56
User: ArturGajowy
Functions: du sort
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List the size of all sub folders and files from the current location, with sorting
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What others think

See also dutop:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/dutop

Comment by pixelbeat 223 weeks and 2 days ago

I actually use this command as an alias to simply "d" all the time. So helpful!

Comment by volve 223 weeks and 2 days ago

slightly different version: sizes of subfolders and files in the current folder

du -sh *
Comment by chickenkiller 223 weeks and 1 day ago

i was just about to post chickenkiller's method too

Comment by jlin64 221 weeks and 1 day ago

The difference between chicknkiller's method and PeekNPoke's method, is PeekNPoke's recurses hidden files and directories, while chickenkiller's does not.

Comment by atoponce 219 weeks and 4 days ago

I use this a lot when I'm tracing down to free up space

du -sh */

same as chickenkiller but only show directories

Comment by asmoore82 218 weeks and 5 days ago

On BSD you'd use

du -hd1
Comment by lme 217 weeks and 1 day ago

curses based: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/

Comment by Hollow 214 weeks and 3 days ago

Yes, this is very good one. I was always using

du -s *

but that, apparently is missing .* files

And I'm usually adding sort to du, to get better picture:

du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -n

Comment by vleolml 209 weeks and 4 days ago

You can't sort numbers followed by M K B try

du --max-depth=1 | sort -nr

n : sort by numbers

r : show big ones on the top :P

Comment by funyotros 184 weeks and 3 days ago

My du doesn't have a --maxdepth option.

Comment by putnamhill 179 weeks ago

>>> You can't sort numbers followed by M K B try

But we can sort by this command:

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

-h: --human-numeric-sort compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)

Comment by brun65i 133 weeks and 2 days ago

Now --max-depth has the short form -d, so --max-depth=N is the same as -d N

Comment by alfplayer 115 weeks and 6 days ago

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