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List directories recursively showing its sizes using only ls and grep

Terminal - List directories recursively showing its sizes using only ls and grep
ls -lhR | grep -e "total\|:$"
2013-01-22 04:58:51
User: Sebasg
Functions: grep ls
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List directories recursively showing its sizes using only ls and grep

ls -lhR

Lists everithing using -l "long listing format" wich includes the space used by the folder. Displays it in -h "human readable form" (i.e. 2.2G, 32K), and -R recurses subfolders.

grep -e using a regex, show lines containing the word "total" or a ":" at the end of the line (those with the name of the folder) only.

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What is wrong with

du -h

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Comment by michelsberg 17 weeks and 3 days ago

I don't have permission to run du (or to install it) on the server.

Comment by Sebasg 17 weeks and 3 days ago

Ok, I thought du would exist on any relevant *nix since it is in the coreutils.

Comment by michelsberg 17 weeks and 3 days ago

very good

Comment by aelam 17 weeks and 3 days ago

you're right, i understand it's use.

for those have root on machine:

du -csh /var/*

[me@this] 22

19:39 Tue Jan 22 > sudo du -shc /var/*

2.0M /var/backups

548M /var/cache

700K /var/crash

4.0K /var/games

195M /var/lib

4.0K /var/local

0 /var/lock

6.7M /var/log

4.0K /var/mail

4.0K /var/metrics

4.0K /var/opt

0 /var/run

88K /var/spool

11M /var/tmp

763M total

Comment by gvitalie 17 weeks and 3 days ago

To memorize it better, german speakers can use

ls -Roh | grep "insgesamt\|:$"

("Roh" means raw)

ls -o is almost identical to ls -l, but does only list owner info (and no group name).

Comment by michelsberg 17 weeks and 3 days ago

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