I want to get a list of the directories and their sizes in a list format like how you get when you do a ls -l.
The thing is that is there a one line command that can do this? I see others have long commands just to output this. That's just too long.
What command can do this or combination of commands that can be easily typed? du -h gives it, but it displays all of the sub-folders which is not what I want. just the current directories folders.
4 Answers
You probably want to see the directories ordered by size:
$ du -hs * | sort -hr
856M lib 746M share 612M lib64 312M src 267M java 239M bin 179M sbin 173M local 93M i686-w64-mingw32 72M libexec 26M include 20M puppet 772K X11R6 20K man 4.0K games 4.0K etc 0 tmp Try this
du -h --max-depth=1 Output
oliver@home:/usr$ sudo du -h --max-depth=1 24M ./include 20M ./sbin 228M ./local 4.0K ./src 520M ./lib 8.0K ./games 1.3G ./share 255M ./bin 2.4G . Alternative
If --max-depth=1 is a bit too long for your taste, you can also try using:
du -h -s * This uses -s (--summarize) and will only print the size of the folder itself by default. By passing all elements in the current working directory (*), it produces similar output as --max-depth=1 would:
Output
oliver@cloud:/usr$ sudo du -h -s * 255M bin 8.0K games 24M include 520M lib 0 lib64 228M local 20M sbin 1.3G share 4.0K src The difference is subtle. The former approach will display the total size of the current working directory and the total size of all folders that are contained in it... but only up to a depth of 1.
The latter approach will calculate the total size of all passed items individually. Thus, it includes the symlink lib64 in the output, but excludes the hidden items (whose name start with a dot). It also lacks the total size for the current working directory, as that was not passed as an argument.
Print the sizes of all files folders and hidden files on disk:
el@dev /home/el $ du -sh `ls -a` 258M . 265M .. 4.0K .classpath 258M .git 4.0K .gitignore 9.0K nbactions.xml 12K README 20K .README.swp 4.0K run.sh 23K XmlPostPropagate.php Worth to mention the NCurses Disk Usage shell command.
Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.
