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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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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 -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 -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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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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What others think

See also dutop:

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

Comment by pixelbeat 82 weeks and 5 days ago

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

Comment by volve 82 weeks and 5 days ago

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

du -sh *
Comment by chickenkiller 82 weeks and 4 days ago

i was just about to post chickenkiller's method too

Comment by jlin64 80 weeks and 5 days 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 79 weeks and 1 day 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 78 weeks and 2 days ago

On BSD you'd use

du -hd1
Comment by lme 76 weeks and 4 days ago

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

Comment by Hollow 74 weeks 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 69 weeks and 1 day 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 44 weeks ago

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

Comment by putnamhill 38 weeks and 4 days ago

Your point of view

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