Commands using du (244)
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6du -sb *|sort -nr|head|awk '{print $2}'|xargs du -sh
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Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list Show Sample Output
5du -hs * | grep '^[0-9,]*[MG]' | sort -rn -
Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the
| sort -rnwhich would put the biggest packges on top. That was purposely left out as the command is slightly on the slow side Also you may need to run this as root as some files can only be checked by du if you can read them ;) Show Sample Output5dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | while read pkg; do dpkg -L $pkg | xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'if [ ! -d "{}" ]; then echo "{}"; fi' | tr '\n' '\000' | du -c --files0-from - | tail -1 | sed "s/total/$pkg/"; done -
5du -b filename
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5sudo dd if=/dev/sdc bs=4096 | pv -s `sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/sdc && du -sb /media/sdc/ |awk '{print $1}' && sudo umount /media/sdc`| sudo dd bs=4096 of=~/USB_BLACK_BACKUP.IMG
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somewhat faster version to see the size of our directories. Size will be in Kilo Bytes. to view smallest first change '-k1nr' to '-k1n'.
4find . -depth -type d -exec du -s {} \; | sort -k1nr -
Since coreutils 7.6 provides sort -h Show Sample Output
4dh() { du -ch --max-depth=1 "${@-.}"|sort -h } -
4du -sch ./*
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full command below, would not let me put full command in text box du -sk ./* | sort -nr | awk 'BEGIN{ pref[1]="K"; pref[2]="M"; pref[3]="G";} { total = total + $1; x = $1; y = 1; while( x > 1024 ) { x = (x + 1023)/1024; y++; } printf("%g%s\t%s\n",int(x*10)/10,pref[y],$2); } END { y = 1; while( total > 1024 ) { total = (total + 1023)/1024; y++; } printf("Total: %g%s\n",int(total*10)/10,pref[y]); }' Show Sample Output
4du -sk ./* | sort -nr -
Provides numerically sorted human readable du output. I so wish there was just a du flag for this. Show Sample Output
4du -x --max-depth=1 | sort -n | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs du -hx --max-depth=0 -
No need to type out the full OR clause if you know which OS you're on, but this is easy cut-n-paste or alias to get top ten directories by singleton. To avoid the error output from du -xSk you could always 2>/dev/null but you might miss relevant STDERR.
4( du -xSk || du -kod ) | sort -nr | head -
Just shortened the awk a bit and removed sed. Edit: I'm assuming there are no spaces in the path. To support white space in pathname try:
awk '($1 < 2048) {sub(/^[0-9]+[ \t]+/,""); print $0}'4find . -type d -exec du -sk '{}' \; | awk '($1 < 2048) {print $2}' -
Also: * find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5 * find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $5 "\t" $9}' | sort -n -r | head -5
4du -sk * | sort -rn | head -
This command simply outputs 10 files in human readable, that takes most space on your disk in current directory.
4du -sh * | sort -rh | head -
4du -sm /home/* | sort -nr | head -n 10
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You also can sum the file usage of all files
find /usr/lib -maxdepth 1 -type l -print0 | xargs -r0 du -Lch3find /usr/lib -maxdepth 1 -type l -print0 | xargs -r0 du -Lh -
Here the pattern is '*.jar', you could pass in any pattern. Another, maybe nicer way to do this is http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1921/summarise-the-size-of-all-files-matching-a-simple-regex You could replace sed with tr Show Sample Output
3find . -iname '*.jar' | xargs du -ks | cut -f1 | xargs echo | sed "s/ /+/g" | bc -
using mb it's still readable;) a symbol variation $ du -ms {,.[^.]}* | sort -nk1 Show Sample Output
3du -ms * .[^.]*| sort -nk1 -
OSX's BSD version of the du command uses the -d argument instead of --max-depth.
3du -hd 1 -
Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories
3du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n | cut -d/ -f2 | sed '$d' | while read i; do if [ -f $i ]; then du -h "$i"; else echo "$(du -h --max-depth=0 "$i")/"; fi; done -
3find [path] [expression] -exec du -ab {} \; | awk '{total+=$0}END{print total}'
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You set the file/dirname transfer variable, in the end point you set the path destination, this command uses pipe view to show progress, compress the file outut and takes account to change the ssh cipher. Support dirnames with spaces. Merged ideas and comments by http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4379/copy-working-directory-and-compress-it-on-the-fly-while-showing-progress and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3177/move-a-lot-of-files-over-ssh Show Sample Output
3file='path to file'; tar -cf - "$file" | pv -s $(du -sb "$file" | awk '{print $1}') | gzip -c | ssh -c blowfish user@host tar -zxf - -C /opt/games -
This is easy to type if you are looking for a few (hundred) "missing" megabytes (and don't mind the occasional K slipping in)... A variation without false positives and also finding gigabytes (but - depending on your keyboard setup - more painful to type):
du -hs *|grep -P '^(\d|,)+(M|G)'|sort -n(NOTE: you might want to replace the ',' according to your locale!) Don't forget that you can modify the globbing as needed! (e.g. '.[^\.]* *' to include hidden files and directories (w/ bash)) in its core similar to: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/706/show-sorted-list-of-files-with-sizes-more-than-1mb-in-the-current-dir Show Sample Output3du -hs *|grep M|sort -n -
3du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n
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3du --max-depth=1|sort -n|cut -f2|tr '\n' '\0'|xargs -0 du -sh 2>/dev/null
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