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Which files/dirs waste my disk space

Useful for analyzing disk usage. If you prefer GUI try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight or http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/ Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
snd:~/trunk$ du -aB1m|awk '$1 >= 100'
130     ./webdev-tools
178     ./videos/peepcode-027-emacs.mov
102     ./videos/LispCast/Reddit Clone Episode 8 -- Continuations.flv
182     ./videos/LispCast/Reddit Clone Episode 3.flv
879     ./videos/LispCast
1010    ./videos
2138    .
```
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du -aB1m|awk '$1 >= 100'

karatatar · 2009-08-01 20:16:33 4
Have a list of directories in a file, ending with newlines and need to run du on it?

du only accepts lines ending with a NUL, which can be a pain to create. This solves that issue.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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cat filename | tr '\n' '\0' | du -hsc ?files0-from=-

Diluted · 2009-08-21 18:36:49 4
Monitor a file's size

Got a file you're generating and you want the size without typing in 'ls -l file' all the time? Use this instead. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
2380 messages
2396 messages
2401 messages
```
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while [ 1 ]; do du /var/log/messages;sleep 60; done

savanik · 2009-10-09 17:22:19 3
show how much diskspace all images in a given directory need
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find /home/bubo/ -type f $ -iname \*.jpg -print0 , -iname \*.png -print0 , -iname \*gif -print0 $ | du -cm --files0-from - | tail -1

bubo · 2009-12-25 16:21:46 3
Get the total size (in human readable form) of all certain file types from the current directory

Warning!, if the pattern didn't find anything it shows the total size of dot dir Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
find . -name '*.foo'| xargs du -hc | tail -n 1
4.3G    total
```
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find . -name 'pattern'| xargs du -hc

starchox · 2010-04-03 18:19:47 3
Show directory sizes, refreshing every 2s

This command shows the size of directories below here, refreshing every 2s. It will also track directories created after running the command (that what the find bit does). Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Every 2s: find -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 |xargs du -csh                     Wed May 19 14:11:09 2010

4.9M    ./centos44
7.2M    ./centos52
7.8M    ./centos53
20K     ./pxelinux.cfg
5.6M    ./rhel47
7.2M    ./rhel52
110M    ./srcd032
142M    total
```
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watch 'find -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d |xargs du -csh'

shadycraig · 2010-05-19 13:13:57 6
See how much space is used by a file or directory

A really useful pair of du options. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
du -hs ~/bin
6.4M    /home/daniel/bin
```
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du -hs /path/to/target

dbbolton · 2010-06-12 00:37:59 3
list files/directories in current directory -- sorted by file size in MB

sudo is optional, but to find out about all files, it is nice, or else run as superuser, ie: su -c 'du -sm * | sort -n' Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
0	config
1	CVS
1	cd
9	faimirror
424	nfsroot
```
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sudo du -sm * | sort -n

wabi · 2010-09-24 17:56:41 9
List Big Files/Directories

This Command will list files & folders which are in GBs. G can be replace by M to get files in MBs.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -h |grep -P "^\S*G"

girish_patel · 2010-12-13 15:26:31 24
Find Files over 20Meg

Output made so that it will match initial suggestion for this task. Personally, I think that output of du -h is more readable.
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find . -type f -size +20000k -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | awk -F"\t" '{printf "%s : %s\n", $2, $1}'

depesz · 2010-12-15 17:51:09 3
get disk usage sum for files of type

print sum of disk usage for filetype within current dir and subdirs Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
nathan@juttenheim:~$ find . -name '*.xml' -type f -print | xargs du -ch
0       ./ma.xml
0       ./derp.xml
482M    ./artbeads.xml
482M    total
```
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find . -name '*.xml' -type f -print | xargs du -ch

nathwill · 2011-03-22 00:47:42 5
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Credit goes to brun65i but he posted it as a comment instead as an alternative. I hadn't noticed the -h option on sort before and this seems like the cleanest alternative. Thanks Brun65i! Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
7.4G    .
2.4G    ./lib64
2.1G    ./share
1.1G    ./src
534M    ./lib
530M    ./local
508M    ./bin
219M    ./java
74M     ./sbin
54M     ./include
16K     ./x86_64-suse-linux
16K     ./X11R6
8.0K    ./log
```
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du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

splante · 2011-04-07 18:01:18 3
get biggest directories
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du -kh --max-depth=1 | sort -n |head

cyberion11 · 2011-04-26 13:32:21 24
Which files/dirs waste my disk space
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du -h / | grep -w "[0-9]*G"

pashutinsky · 2011-07-23 19:02:11 3
Show size of in MB of the current directory.

Shows the size of the directory the command is ran in. The size is in MB and GB. There is no need to type the path, its the current working directory. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
235M	/home/user/files1
```
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du -sh `pwd`

djkee · 2011-10-30 08:47:23 3
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

6 characters counting whitespace!
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du -sh *

JeremyinNC · 2011-11-02 16:24:05 3
Sort all files and directories by size, rounded to the nearest megabyte. (Substitute custom path for *.)
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du -ms * | sort -nr

ronocdh · 2011-12-06 22:33:52 3
Find and sort out folders by size
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -s $(ls -l | grep '^d' | awk '{print $9}') | sort -nr

j3ffyang · 2012-03-15 09:04:13 3
human readable total directory size
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du -cah /path/to/folder/ | grep total

ekinertac · 2012-05-29 23:30:03 3
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -hs * | sort -h

Woems · 2012-06-15 14:13:06 3
Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

"-exec" ftw.
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find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -hr | head

mrfixit42 · 2012-08-03 04:24:36 4
Gets directory size on sub directories in current dir with human readable size
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -h --max-depth=1

drerik · 2012-08-07 13:05:43 3
Find the 10 lusers winners of the "I take up the most disk space" award

the -h option of du and sort (on appropriate distrib) makes output "Human" readable and still sorted by "reversed size" (sort -rh) Show Sample Output
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```
55G	/home/user32
19G	/home/user45
6.7G	/home/user89
16M	/home/user02
64K	/home/user57
```
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du -sh /home/*|sort -rh|head -n 10

toaster · 2012-09-12 11:54:06 5
Size for all directories inside the current one
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find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs du -sh

unixmonkey39631 · 2012-09-26 14:58:27 4
Find the 10 users that take up the most disk space

without reverse...
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du -sm /home/* | sort -n | tail -10

bertatum · 2012-10-11 13:58:30 4
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remove comments (even those starting with spaces), empty lines (even those containing spaces) in one grep command

useful for discarding even those comments which start with blanks or those empty lines which contain blanks

Execute a command with the last parameter of a previous command

Suppose that you had change in a directory like /home/user/mycode/code, and now you need to list it, instead of type entire path again, use ls !$ to recall path and list. Useful with many commands, this is only an example. (In this case, same result can be achivied with ls .)

Preserve user variables when running commands with sudo.

In this case the current user has proxy variable set which allows access to the rpm on the internet but needs root privs to install it. Running sudo -E preserves the current user proxy var and allows the rpm install to be executed with sudo.

Change the default editor for modifying the sudoers list.

On Ubuntu, the default editor for visudo is nano. To change the editor to something else (e.g., vi) use this command.

Print all open regular files sorted by the number of file handles open to each.

List all open files of all processes. . $ find /proc/*/fd Look through the /proc file descriptors . $ -xtype f list only symlinks to file . $ -printf "%l\n" print the symlink target . $ grep -P '^/(?!dev|proc|sys)' ignore files from /dev /proc or /sys . $ sort | uniq -c | sort -n count the results . Many processes will create and immediately delete temporary files. These can the filtered out by adding: $ ... | grep -v " (deleted)$" | ...

Deleting Files from svn which are missing

Tell what is encoded in a float, given its HEX bytes

It handles all possible combination of the hex bytes, including NaNs, Infinities, Normalized and Subnormal Numbers... $ This crazy DC stuff spent me a few days to write, optimize, polish and squeeze so that it works within the tight 255 character bound... $ You can modify it easily for other IEEE754 numbers, say, half, double, double-extended, quadruple $ (I hope someone will find this useful and submit more dc code to commandlinefu!)

Image to color palette generator

Extract a color palette from a image useful for designers. Example usage: $extract-palette myawesomeimage.jpg 4 Where the first argument is the image you want to extract a palette from. The second argument is the number of colors you want. It may be the case where you want to change the search space. In that case, change the -resize argument to a bigger or smaller result. See the ImageMagick documentation for the -resize argument.

Get a list of the erroring cifs entries in fstab

It disturbs me when my logwatch report tells me a share or machine has disappeared, esp as mount isn't telling me what's gone. This command outputs to stderr the erroring cifs entries from fstab.

Delete DOS Characters via VIM (^M)

And in case you want to migrate back to, err.. MS-DOS: ":set ff=dos" does the opposite.

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