du 💽

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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