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du:ai:2c19b show size difference in gb between two directories

$ du -sh dir1 dir2 | awk '{print $1}'

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du:ai:422fc sort folders by size

$ du -hs */ | sort -rh

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du:ai:5a1ce How can I see the size of a specific folder (/opt/mattermost) with all its subfolders?

$ du -sh /opt/mattermost

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du:ai:78c44 show files by size in gb

$ du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -rh | grep -E '^${0-9.}+G'

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du:ai:99156 Display the size of directories in the current directory

$ du -h --max-depth=1

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du:ai:a7dc2 get size of directory in kilobytes

$ du -s ${directory-name} | cut -f1

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du:ai:b901a how can I check each directory filespace usage on / but ignore mounted filesystems?

$ du -h --max-depth=1 --one-file-system /

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du:tldr:048a1 du: List the human-readable sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, up to N levels deep.

$ du -h -d ${2} ${path-to-directory}

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du:tldr:27662 du: 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}

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du:tldr:68994 du: List the human-readable sizes of a directory and of all the files and directories within it.

$ du -ah ${path-to-directory}

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du:tldr:87c2b du: List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in the given unit (B/KiB/MiB).

$ du -${select} ${path-to-directory}

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du:tldr:c7287 du: 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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files:directory:list:size List the human-readable sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, up to N levels deep.

$ du -h --max-depth=N ${path-to-directory}

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files:directory:sort:size List all folders and order them by size.

$ du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

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