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
- List all files and directories (including hidden ones) above a certain [t]hreshold size (useful for investigating what is actually taking up the space):
du --all --human-readable --threshold 1G|1024M|1048576K .[^.]* *