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du

 
Disk usage: estimate and summarize file and directory space usage. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/du.
 
  • List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in the given unit (B/KiB/MiB):
     
    du -{{b|k|m}} {{path/to/directory}}
     
  • List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in human-readable form (i.e. auto-selecting the appropriate unit for each size):
     
    du -h {{path/to/directory}}
     
  • Show the size of a single directory, in human-readable units:
     
    du -sh {{path/to/directory}}
     
  • List the human-readable sizes of a directory and of all the files and directories within it:
     
    du -ah {{path/to/directory}}
     
  • List the human-readable sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, up to N levels deep:
     
    du -h --max-depth=N {{path/to/directory}}
     
  • List the human-readable size of all .jpg files in subdirectories of the current directory, and show a cumulative total at the end:
     
    du -ch {{*/*.jpg}}

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