du

Disk usage: estimate and summarize file and directory space usage.

• 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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