Living in the Shell #18; du (Report Directory Size)
Babak K. Shandiz
Posted on December 17, 2021
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Reports disk usage.
See summarized directory size -s
du -s ~/Downloads
11732700 /home/babak/Downloads
Note that the result is in kilobytes.
Human-readable size values -h
du -sh ~/Downloads
12G /home/babak/Downloads
Exclude files by pattern --exclude
du -sh --exclude '*.iso' ~/Downloads
7.1G /home/babak/Downloads
See exhaustive sub-directory sizes
du ~/Documents
Limit recursion depth -d
du -h -d 1 ~/Documents
Include files in exhaustive size report -a
du -h -a ~/Documents
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Babak K. Shandiz
Posted on December 17, 2021
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