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List top ten files/directories sorted by size
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du -sb *|sort -nr|head|awk '{print $2}'|xargs du -sh

srand · 2009-05-12 19:58:45 9

Show sorted list of files with sizes more than 1MB in the current dir

Taken from here: http://linsovet.com/directory-usage-size-sorted-list Show Sample Output

du -hs * | grep '^[0-9,]*[MG]' | sort -rn

orie · 2009-02-15 17:47:59 11

Calculates the size on disk for each package installed on the filesystem (or removed but not purged). This is missing the | sort -rn which 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 Output

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176     acl                                                                                                                                     
44      acpi                                                                                                                                    
396     acpi-support                                                                                                                            
32      acpi-support-base                                                                                                                       
108     acpid                                                                                                                                   
524     adduser                                                                                                                                 
408     akonadi-server                                                                                                                          
2416    akregator                                                                                                                               
388     alsa-base                                                                                                                               
1840    alsa-utils                                                                                                                              
1860    amor                                                                                                                                    
96      anacron                                                                                                                                 
120     apmd                                                                                                                                    
4512    apt                                                                                                                                     
104     apt-file                                                                                                                                
376     apt-utils                                                                                                                               
140     apt-xapian-index                                                                                                                        
9184    aptitude                                                                                                                                
112     at                                                                                                                                      
104     avahi-autoipd                                                                                                                           
252     avahi-daemon                                                                                                                            
260     base-files                                                                                                                              
100     base-passwd                                                                                                                             
du: cannot access `diverted by dash to: /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz': No such file or directory                                         
du: cannot access `diverted by dash to: /bin/sh.distrib': No such file or directory

dpkg --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

pykler · 2009-10-12 14:57:54 5

Simplest way to get size (in bytes) of a file
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du -b filename

j_melis · 2010-10-30 19:27:18 4
dd with progress bar and statistics to gzipped image
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5

sudo 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

juanmi · 2013-02-06 09:29:10 7
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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find . -depth -type d -exec du -s {} \; | sort -k1nr

mohan43u · 2009-06-23 20:52:35 11
Sort the size usage of a directory tree by gigabytes, kilobytes, megabytes, then bytes.

Since coreutils 7.6 provides sort -h Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/share/games $ dh
298K	./qlife
1,4M	./eboard
2,7M	./gtklife
9,9M	./csmash
18M	./stepmania
27M	./frozen-bubble
30M	./etracer
86M	./wormux
174M	.
174M	total
```
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dh() { du -ch --max-depth=1 "${@-.}"|sort -h }

gibboris · 2009-10-30 15:30:16 6
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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du -sch ./*

enderst · 2009-12-12 05:10:40 3
nice disk usage, sorted by size, see description for full command

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
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```
22.6M	./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.31-pkg1.run
152K	./ffmpeginstall.3.2.1
28K	./compiz-check
16K	./ffmpeginstall.3.2.1.tar.gz
8K	./Desktop
4K	./Videos
4K	./Templates
4K	./Public
4K	./Pictures
4K	./Music
4K	./Documents
4K	./cpanel_rebuildbindzones
```
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du -sk ./* | sort -nr

op4 · 2010-02-04 04:08:05 9
Numerically sorted human readable disk usage

Provides numerically sorted human readable du output. I so wish there was just a du flag for this. Show Sample Output
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```
# du -x --max-depth=1 /var | sort -n | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs du -hx --max-depth=0
0       /var/lock
128K    /var/run
4.0K    /var/crash
4.0K    /var/games
4.0K    /var/local
4.0K    /var/opt
4.0K    /var/tmp
8.0K    /var/mail
692K    /var/spool
7.2M    /var/backups
13M     /var/log
97M     /var/www
236M    /var/lib
539M    /var/cache
891M    /var
```
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du -x --max-depth=1 | sort -n | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs du -hx --max-depth=0

d34dh0r53 · 2010-02-18 19:46:47 6
Simple top directory usage with du flips for either Linux or base Solaris

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.
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( du -xSk || du -kod ) | sort -nr | head

DoNotRememberMe · 2010-03-16 04:05:14 4
list folders containing less than 2 MB of data

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}'
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find . -type d -exec du -sk '{}' \; | awk '($1 < 2048) {print $2}'

putnamhill · 2010-06-16 11:53:14 3
Find the biggest files

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
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du -sk * | sort -rn | head

EBAH · 2011-01-03 10:49:40 17
Get the 10 biggest files/folders for the current direcotry

This command simply outputs 10 files in human readable, that takes most space on your disk in current directory.
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du -sh * | sort -rh | head

sirex · 2011-11-16 06:01:02 5
Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space
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du -sm /home/* | sort -nr | head -n 10

dan · 2012-09-11 13:09:22 4
Show the disk usage for files pointed by symbolic link in a directory

You also can sum the file usage of all files find /usr/lib -maxdepth 1 -type l -print0 | xargs -r0 du -Lch
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find /usr/lib -maxdepth 1 -type l -print0 | xargs -r0 du -Lh

starchox · 2009-03-07 00:17:45 5
Another way to calculate sum size of all files matching a pattern

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
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```
44
```
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find . -iname '*.jar' | xargs du -ks | cut -f1 | xargs echo | sed "s/ /+/g" | bc

wires · 2009-06-08 14:29:56 6
Alternative size (human readable) of files and directories (biggest last)

using mb it's still readable;) a symbol variation $ du -ms {,.[^.]}* | sort -nk1 Show Sample Output
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```
186     Foto
213     .mozilla
260     .eclipse
295     .kde
301     Desktop
```
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du -ms * .[^.]*| sort -nk1

ioggstream · 2009-07-01 13:38:13 8
Get the size of all the directories in current directory

OSX's BSD version of the du command uses the -d argument instead of --max-depth.
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du -hd 1

Tuirgin · 2009-08-10 13:11:22 3
Ultimate current directory usage command

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals to differentiate files and directories
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du -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

nickwe · 2009-09-03 20:43:43 3
Sum size of files returned from FIND
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find [path] [expression] -exec du -ab {} \; | awk '{total+=$0}END{print total}'

rehanift · 2009-09-24 17:50:26 3
improve copy file over ssh showing progress

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
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```
112MB 0:00:12 [8.78MB/s] [==============>     ] 96%
```
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file='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

starchox · 2010-01-19 16:02:45 37
easily find megabyte eating files or directories

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 Output
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```
1,1M	htdig
1,1M	xml
1,2M	empathy
....
52M	man
55M	locale
72M	gtk-doc
94M	apps
258M	icons
316K	ImageMagick-6.5.0
366M	doc
```
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du -hs *|grep M|sort -n

tuxlifan · 2010-03-25 19:20:24 4
List the size of all sub folders and files from the current location, with sorting
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du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n

ArturGajowy · 2010-10-01 06:09:56 4
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
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du --max-depth=1|sort -n|cut -f2|tr '\n' '\0'|xargs -0 du -sh 2>/dev/null

j_melis · 2010-10-08 12:06:50 3
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