Friday, May 25, 2018

How to find size of particular directory on linux

du -sh file_path

Explanation

  • du (disc usage) command estimates file_path space usage
  • The options -sh are (from man du):

      -s, --summarize           display only a total for each argument      -h, --human-readable           print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)  

    To check more than one directory and see the total, use du -sch:

      -c, --total           produce a grand total