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Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

Terminal - Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)
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
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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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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
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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du --max-depth=1
2009-08-08 00:46:29
User: Octave
Functions: du
Tags: disk usage
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Get the size of all the directories in current directory
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du -x --max-depth=1 | sort -n | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs du -hx --max-depth=0
2010-02-18 19:46:47
User: d34dh0r53
Functions: awk du sort xargs
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Numerically sorted human readable disk usage

Provides numerically sorted human readable du output. I so wish there was just a du flag for this.

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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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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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What others think

I've been using a similar compound command for some time, but this approach has the same problem as mine: it invokes du twice, which can be slow in some cases. The only way that I can think of to get around this problem is to get the du totals in the normal numeric form, and then have the command translate the numbers into human-readable form. That seems a shame, since the code to generate human-readable output already exists in du. Maybe the best solution is to submit a patch to give the du command a new switch: sort the output by total size.

Comment by willdye 172 weeks and 1 day ago

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