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Size(k) of directories(Biggest first)

Terminal - Size(k) of directories(Biggest first)
find . -depth -type d -exec du -s {} \; | sort -k1nr
2009-06-23 20:52:35
User: mohan43u
Functions: du find sort
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Size(k) of directories(Biggest first)

somewhat faster version to see the size of our directories. Size will be in Kilo Bytes. to view smallest first change '-k1nr' to '-k1n'.

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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
du -ms * .[^.]*| sort -nk1
2009-07-01 13:38:13
User: ioggstream
Functions: du sort
Tags: less sort find du human
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Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)

using mb it's still readable;) a symbol variation

$ du -ms {,.[^.]}* | sort -nk1

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du -ms * | sort -nk1
2009-07-08 22:11:50
User: Tekhne
Functions: du sort
Tags: less sort find du human
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Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)
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function duf { du -k $@ | sort -rn | perl -ne '($s,$f)=split(/\t/,$_,2);for(qw(K M G T)){if($s<1024){$x=($s<10?"%.1f":"%3d");printf("$x$_\t%s",$s,$f);last};$s/=1024}' }
2009-06-30 19:20:30
User: illicium
Functions: du perl sort
Tags: less sort find du human
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Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest first)

Taken from http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/

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function duf { du -sk "$@" | sort -n | while read size fname; do for unit in k M G T P E Z Y; do if [ $size -lt 1024 ]; then echo -e "${size}${unit}\t${fname}"; break; fi; size=$((size/1024)); done; done; }
2009-07-02 19:56:36
User: marssi
Functions: du echo read size sort
Tags: sort du shell human
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Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest last)

Found this one little more for me. This one removes the perl dependency (from command 2535).

Source for command : http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/

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What others think

ncdu (package name:ncdu) is also nice if you find yourself needing to do this repeatedly and/or interactively.

Comment by bwoodacre 207 weeks and 6 days ago

So, why not just:

du -k | sort -nr
Comment by OJM 207 weeks and 6 days ago

@0JM, We have lot of way to display size, but I think 'find' is handling Tree traverse better than others. '-depth' is pretty good here, It makes 'du' first calculate inner directories then when outer directories comes, kernel cache helping 'du' to do faster calculation.

Comment by mohan43u 207 weeks and 6 days ago

@mohan43u Yeah, there are multiple ways, but the find/exec combination is slow as hell.

Try yourself:

First, create some test-directories:

for n in `seq 1 1 10`; do for m in `seq 1 1 10`; do mkdir -p $n/$m; done; done

Then check performance:

time find . -depth -type d -exec du -s {} \; | sort -k1nr >/dev/null

real 0m0.398s

user 0m0.136s

sys 0m0.239s

time du -k | sort -nr > /dev/null

real 0m0.025s

user 0m0.007s

sys 0m0.018s

Case closed.

Comment by OJM 207 weeks and 6 days ago

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