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Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)

Terminal - Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)
du -ms * .[^.]*| sort -nk1
2009-07-01 13:38:13
User: ioggstream
Functions: du sort
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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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Terminal - Alternatives
find . -depth -type d -exec du -s {} \; | sort -k1nr
2009-06-23 20:52:35
User: mohan43u
Functions: du find sort
Tags: sort find du
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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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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 -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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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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du -h -s -x * | sort -g -b -r | less -F
2009-06-30 10:37:07
User: unixmonkey4470
Functions: du less sort
Tags: less sort find du
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Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest first)

This version, like the original posted, prints the biggest first, but prints files as well as directories. Additionally, the output is piped through less(1), so for very large directories, the output is automatically paginated. The argument to less tells it to quit if there is only one screen of output, so that less isn't intrusive when it needn't be.

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If you can stomach a text-mode ncurses program, there is ncdu which analyses an entire tree at once: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2387/ncdu-ncurses-disk-usage

Comment by bwoodacre 36 weeks and 4 days ago

This command produces duplicates and does not provide the full relative path to the file so that you have to hunt for things. There is a better way.

Comment by Tekhne 35 weeks and 4 days ago

@tekhne: can you run this command and produce duped lines?

Comment by ioggstream 35 weeks and 3 days ago

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