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

du -h --max-depth=1

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By: PeekNPoke
2009-02-05 14:37:24
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See also dutop: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/dutop
pixelbeat · 790 weeks ago
I actually use this command as an alias to simply "d" all the time. So helpful!
volve · 790 weeks ago
slightly different version: sizes of subfolders and files in the current folder du -sh *
chickenkiller · 789 weeks and 6 days ago
i was just about to post chickenkiller's method too
jlin64 · 787 weeks and 6 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.
atoponce · 786 weeks and 3 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
asmoore82 · 785 weeks and 3 days ago
On BSD you'd use du -hd1
lme · 783 weeks and 6 days ago
curses based: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/
Hollow · 781 weeks and 2 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
vleolml · 776 weeks and 3 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
funyotros · 751 weeks and 2 days ago
My du doesn't have a --maxdepth option.
putnamhill · 745 weeks and 6 days 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)
brun65i · 700 weeks ago
Now --max-depth has the short form -d, so --max-depth=N is the same as -d N
alfplayer · 682 weeks and 5 days ago

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