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transfer files locally to be sure that file permissions are kept correctly showing progress

This may seem like a long command, but it is great for making sure all file permissions are kept in tact. What it is doing is streaming the files in a sub-shell and then untarring them in the target directory. Please note that the -z command should not be used for local files and no perfomance increase will be visible as overhead processing (CPU) will be evident, and will slow down the copy. You also may keep simple with, but you don't have the progress info: cp -rpf /some/directory /other/path Show Sample Output
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```
7MB 0:00:01 [59.7MB/s] [============>        ] 57% ETA 0:00:00
```
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dir='path to file'; tar cpf - "$dir" | pv -s $(du -sb "$dir" | awk '{print $1}') | tar xpf - -C /other/path

starchox · 2010-01-19 19:05:45 3
List top ten files/directories sorted by size

If a directory name contains space xargs will do the wrong thing. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ deals better with that. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
33M     a b
17M     libxnee
3.6M    doc
3.0M    gnee
```
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du -s * | sort -nr | head | cut -f2 | parallel -k du -sh

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 12:59:14 6
show large folders and files, including hidden

shows only folders, that are MB or GB in total size
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -shc .[^.]* * | grep [MG]

rubo77 · 2010-07-06 10:13:18 12
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 4
Get top 10 largest directories under cwd

The pipe to head removes the listing of . as the largest directory.
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du | sort -n | tail -11 | head

phage · 2009-03-04 16:06:34 9
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 -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}' }

illicium · 2009-06-30 19:20:30 15
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/ Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/share/compiz $ duf *
4k	text.xml
8k	video.xml
12k	session.xml
40k	colorfilter.xml
92k	staticswitcher.xml
184k	shift.xml
356k	animation.xml
1M	reflection.png
```
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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; }

marssi · 2009-07-02 19:56:36 6
Outputs size of /example/folder in human readable format.

Built-in function in linux, should work on any distro Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
3,3G /example/folder/
```
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du -hs /example/folder/

Paaskehare · 2009-07-08 11:38:39 15
List all files in current directory by size
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -sh *

erlebnishengst · 2009-07-08 20:11:13 6

Ultimate current directory usage command

biggest->small directories, then biggest->smallest files Show Sample Output

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O=$IFS;IFS=$'\n'; D=$(for f in *;do [[ -d $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);F=$(for f in *;do [[ -f $f ]] && du -sh "$f";done | sort -gr);IFS=$O;echo "$D";echo "$F"

Viperlin · 2009-09-03 11:39:50 6

find the 10 largest directories

http://superuser.com/questions/9847/linux-utility-for-finding-the-largest-files-directories
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find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} | sort -rn

noah · 2013-06-26 02:08:21 7
rm filenames with spaces

When you do a ls -1 | xargs rm it wouldn't workd because those files have spaces. So you must use find -print0 and xargs -0
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find /Users/jpn/.ievms/ -type f -print0| xargs -0 du -sh

unixmonkey39631 · 2013-10-16 09:54:19 8
Reports size of all folders in the current folder. Useful when burning CD's and DVD's
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export IFS=$'\n';for dir in $( ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c 52-);do du -sh $dir; done

whatshisname · 2009-02-28 20:30:15 5
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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ls | xargs du -sh

jyro · 2009-12-10 15:58:05 3
Show the size of a directory

Displays only the subtotal size of a directory with the -s option, and in human readable format. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
blaine@blaine-workstation:~$ du -sh .
11G     .
```
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du -sh some/directory

Jacolyte · 2010-02-21 02:08:28 38
show space used by postgres

this command shows the space used in postgres directory. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
4	./pg_twophase
5364	./base/17868
5268	./base/11563
5268	./base/1
114288	./base/11564
4	./base/pgsql_tmp
5736	./base/19846
135932	./base
268584	.
268584	total
```
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while (( 1==1 )); do du -c . >> output.log; sleep 2; done; tail -f output.log

aceiro · 2010-07-12 17:23:45 4
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Parsing the output of ls is never a good idea for any reason. Using find this way: - works with files that have spaces in their names. - actually lists "sub folders" and not of all files and folders. - does not break if there are a huge number of files in the current directory.
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name . -exec du -sh {} +

sorpigal · 2009-12-11 14:37:26 4
calculate the total size of files in specified directory (in Megabytes)

Prints the size of Directory in human readable format like KB MB or GB. If you want to see size each files and directories inside the directory use -a option as shown in second output and if you want a total sum then add -c option :) Show Sample Output
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```
du -h Documents/
7.6M    Documents/

du -ha Documents/
4.0K    Documents/wget-log.gz
4.0K    Documents/svndelete.sh.gz
7.6M    Documents/webmin_1.500_all.deb.gz
7.6M    Documents/

du -hac Documents/
4.0K    Documents/wget-log.gz
4.0K    Documents/svndelete.sh.gz
7.6M    Documents/webmin_1.500_all.deb.gz
7.6M    Documents/
7.6M    total
```
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du -h <Directory>

Vasudev · 2010-06-04 03:14:37 4
do a directory disk usage summary without giving the details for the subdirectories

Sometimes you want to know the summary of the sizes of directories without seeing the details in their subdirectories. Especially if it is going to just scroll off the screen. This one liner summarizes the disk usage of any number of directories in a directory without giving all the details of whats happening underneath. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
dir1 500
dir2 145
dir3 340400
dir4 2345
```
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for dir in $(ls); do du -sk ${dir}; done

morlockhq_ · 2009-03-24 13:42:55 15
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Realtime lines per second in a log file, with history

This is similar to standard `pv`, but it retains the rate history instead of only showing the current rate. This is useful for spotting changes. To do this, -f is used to force pv to output, and stderr is redirected to stdout so that `tr` can swap the carriage returns for new lines. (doesn't work correctly is in zsh for some reason. Tail's output isn't redirected to /dev/null like it is in bash. anyone know why? ???????)

count of files from each subfolder

Find the number of files from each folder

Substitute an already running command

eg: Already running cmd $sleep 120 Substitution cmd $c=$(pgrep sleep) && sleep 5 && kill $c

Launch a VirtualBox virtual machine

You can use this on your session login.

Remove all subversion files from a project recursively

This command will remove all .svn folder from your project if you need to manual remove the subversion files.

Create a file of repeated, non-zero

dd can be used with /dev/zero to easily create a file of all zero-bytes. Pipe that through tr and use octal conversions to change the byte values from zero to 0xff (octal 0377). You can replace 0377 with the byte of your choice. You can also use \\0 and \\377 instead of the quoted version.

find text in a file

this will find text in the directory you specify and give you line where it appears.

show all programs connected or listening on a network port

Use the aliased command 'nsl'

Find the package that installed a command

Bypass with hexencoding, dump /etc/passwd

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