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Steve Robbins
Asked: 2012-11-29 22:59:31 +0800 CST

Get Size of All Folders in Directory

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I want to get the size of all directories within a specific directory. I was thinking something like

find . -type d -exec du -sh {} \;

But that returns all directories recursively. How can I limit the depth?

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6 Answers

  1. Add -maxdepth 1 to your find parameters.

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  2. Best Answer

    Why use find at all and not simply glob for directories?

    du -shc */
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  3. This one should do the job efficiently :

    du -hc --max-depth=1

    One big difference I think of is that, when encountering hardlinked files, they will be counted only once. In a find loop, they will be counted once per base directory. [Is it correct english?]

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  4. You can use the -maxdepth option.

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  5. I'm using this one,

    ls | xargs du -sh

    basically there are many ways to skin a cat :)

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  6. You can also do this:

    du -ah .

    What it does is to take the subdirectories of the current directory, find its individual's size and in the end, it prints the total size.

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