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nux
Asked: 2014-02-27 15:42:37 +0800 CST

How to list the size of a directoy and subdirectories and files inside it by terminal?

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Is there a command to list a directory total size and then each sub-folder and files inside it .

I also want to sort them by increasing order so that I can see which folder is greater in size.

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3 Answers

  1. du -sh * | sort -h

    will get you a human-readable ascending list of the sizes of files and subdirectories in your current directory, 

    du -sh

    will summarize the current directory size.

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  2. My answer is like below :

    i used du command for that purpose .

    du : Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories.

    As the picture below i want to see the size of a folder name test and recursively the sub folders and each file in kb :

    enter image description here

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  3. You can do ls -sh to list the file size of the files and folder in the current directory
    ls -shR * will list the size and name of files recursively

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