Numerically sorted human readable disk usage

• Get the size of all the directories in current directory

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  du --max-depth=1
  Octave · 2009-08-08 00:46:29 0
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• Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

  This allows the output to be sorted from largest to smallest in human readable format.

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  sudo du -ks $(ls -d */) | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh 2> /dev/null
  Code_Bleu · 2009-08-17 22:21:09 1
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• 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

  This is sample output - yours may be different.

  # 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 2
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• 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 0
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• Get the size of all the directories in current directory

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  sudo du -sh $(ls -d */) 2> /dev/null
  Code_Bleu · 2009-08-07 19:00:09 1
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