du -sh file_path
Explanation
du
(disc usage) command estimates file_path space usageThe options
-sh
are (fromman 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