List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

du -sch ./*

By: enderst

2009-12-12 05:10:40

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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
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
This is sample output - yours may be different.
7

du -sh */

guxtavo · 2009-12-10 16:19:15 7
List the size of all sub folders and files from the current location, with sorting
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n

ArturGajowy · 2010-10-01 06:09:56 5
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location
This is sample output - yours may be different.
3

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 4
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Tested on MacOS and GNU/Linux. It works in dirs containing files starting with '-'. It runs 'du' only once. It sorts according to size. It treats 1K=1000 (and not 1024) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
0 K     Private
4 K     public_html
8 K     mail
44 K    Library
264 K   parallel
8 M     Downloads
10 M    Documents
1 G     foo
```
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du -sk -- * | sort -n | perl -pe '@SI=qw(K M G T P); s:^(\d+?)((\d\d\d)*)\s:$1." ".$SI[((length $2)/3)]."\t":e'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-04-26 08:07:27 10

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