Get the size of all the directories in current directory

du --max-depth=1

By: Octave

2009-08-08 00:46:29

du disk usage

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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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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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 53
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 7
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.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -hd 1

Tuirgin · 2009-08-10 13:11:22 3
Get the size of all the directories in current directory
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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sudo du -sh $(ls -d */) 2> /dev/null

Code_Bleu · 2009-08-07 19:00:09 4
Get the size of all the directories in current directory (Sorted Human Readable)

as per eightmillion's comment. Simply economical :)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -h | sort -hr

mooselimb · 2011-11-06 23:15:36 4

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