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Which files/dirs waste my disk space

this will give u the details in MB's; from high to low.... Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
193     /var/log
189     /var/log/sysstat
1       /var/log/*****
1       /var/log/*****
1       /var/log/*****
1       /var/log/*****
1       /var/log/*****
1       /var/log/*****
```
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du -xm --max-depth 2 /var/log | sort -rn | head

srvesh · 2013-12-16 13:29:33 8
Find files and calculate size of result in shell
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -name "pattern" -type f -exec du -ch {} + | tail -n1

stecman · 2014-01-17 03:26:26 8
List size of individual folder in current directory
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -hs *

chaudhary · 2014-05-22 02:49:34 7
List only X byte files in the current directory

This will list all the files that are a gigabyte or larger in the current working directory. Change the G in the regex to be a M and you'll find all files that are a megabyte up to but not including a gigabyte. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
1.8G	Desktop
4.9G	Documents
3.7G	Google Drive
1.4G	Library
 37G	VirtualBoxVMs
8.7G	src
```
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du -hs * |egrep -i "^(\s?\d+\.?\d+G)"

krizzo · 2014-12-09 15:23:21 9
BIGGEST Files in a Directory

Way more easy to understand for naive user. Just returns the biggest file with size.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr| head -1

ranjha · 2014-12-14 15:40:56 8
BIGGEST Files in a Directory
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -k . | sort -rn | head -11

b0wlninja · 2014-12-29 17:12:25 8
display 10 biggest open files
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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lsof / | awk '{ if($7 > 1048576) print $7/1048576 "MB "$9 }' | sort -n -u | tail

lolssl · 2015-10-02 19:43:04 9
Sum file sizes of found files
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find . -mtime +30 -exec ls -all "{}" \; | awk '{COUNTER+=$5} END {SIZE=COUNTER/1024/1024; print "size sum of found files is: " SIZE "MB"}'

breign · 2016-10-28 08:05:57 16
Find the biggest files

Show the top file size in human readable form
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find -type f | xargs -I{} du -s "{}" | sort -rn | head | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh "{}"

glaudiston · 2011-01-04 11:10:56 4
Find the biggest files
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -rh | head

depesz · 2011-01-04 11:38:29 6
find all file larger than 500M in home dir

Find all files larger than 500M in home directory and print them ordered by size with full info about each file. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
1688484 -rw-rw-r-- 1 marcanuy marcanuy 1729003520 Mar 23  2013 /home/marcanuy/backups/docs-20130323.tar.gz
4300700 -rw-rw-r-- 1 marcanuy marcanuy 4403912324 Mar 24  2013 /home/marcanuy/backups/full-20130323.tar.gz
```
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find ~ -type f -size +500M -exec ls -ls {} \; | sort -n

marcanuy · 2013-11-17 13:13:14 7
List by size all of the directories in a given tree.

This command lists all the directories in SEARCHPATH by size, displaying their size in a human readable format. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
257M    /var/
147M    /var/cache
144M    /var/cache/apt
110M    /var/cache/apt/archives
96M     /var/lib
67M     /var/lib/apt
66M     /var/lib/apt/lists
22M     /var/lib/dpkg
20M     /var/lib/dpkg/info
15M     /var/log
```
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SEARCHPATH=/var/; find $SEARCHPATH -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | sed 's|^.*'$SEARCHPATH'|'$SEARCHPATH'|' | xargs du -sh 2> /dev/null

moogmusic · 2011-07-06 08:21:58 5
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