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3du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10
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du -m option to not go across mounts (you usually want to run that command to find what to destroy in that partition) -a option to also list . files -k to display in kilobytes sort -n to sort in numerical order, biggest files last tail -10 to only display biggest 10
1du . -mak|sort -n|tail -10
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du -s */|sort -r|headIf you really want sizes that look like "1K" instead of "1024", and you can live with *two* passes of the "du" command, then this alternative works for me:du -sh $(du -s */|sort -r|head|cut -f2-)For what it's worth, I prefer to use just "*" instead of "*/", because 1) symlinks might be in the pwd and I typically don't care about the sizes of those, and 2) if there's a large file in the pwd I usually want to know about it. Also, I prefer to have the largest directories near the bottom of the output. Thus the command that I usually use is a minor variant of this:du -sh $(du -s *|sort|tail|cut -f2-)The actual command I use has some features for error-checking and passing in overrides of "*", but it's the same basic idea. Someday I'd like to eliminate the second pass of "du", but so far it hasn't been enough of a problem to bother fixing it.