Du (Unix) - Examples

Examples

Sum of directories in kilobytes:

$ du -sk * 152304 directoryOne 1856548 directoryTwo

Sum of directories in human-readable format (Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte):

$ du -sh * 149M directoryOne 1.8G directoryTwo

disk usage of all subdirectories and files including hidden files within the current directory (sorted by filesize) :

$ du -sk .* *| sort -n

disk usage of all subdirectories and files including hidden files within the current directory (sorted by reverse filesize) :

$ du -sk .* *| sort -nr

The weight (size) of directories:

$ du -d 1 -c -h

The weight (size) of subdirectories under the root directory /, without traversing into other filesystems. Useful when /var /tmp or other directories are on separate storage from the root directory:

$ du -d 1 -c -h -x / or with du from GNU: $ du --max-depth=1 -c -h -x /

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