du
Disk usage: estimate and summarize file and directory space usage. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/du.1.html.
- List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in the given unit (KiB/MiB/GiB):
du -{{k|m|g}} {{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 -d {{2}} {{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}}