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Linux: How to find size of the current directory

In linux, the directory is just a pointer to the location. What we really want if the size of all the files that are contained in that directory. To see the individual sizes of all the directories inside the current directory:

du -sh *

the ‘s’ option provides a summary, the ‘h’ option provides the output in a human readable format. There is a ‘c’ option which can combine the sizes and give a total.

du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

provides the size of all sub-folders at the first level. Sort command sorts the output, with the ‘r’ option meaning ‘reverse’, i.e. the largest one first.

 

 

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