du in Linux - view the folder size and sort by size
One day, I want to check the use of 1 computer hard disk, as a command control, nonsense, let’s start:
Use the df command to view current disk usage:
jack@jiaobuchong:~$ df -lh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 18G 5.7G 11G 35% /
udev 2.7G 4.0K 2.7G 1% /dev
tmpfs 553M 916K 552M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.7G 488K 2.7G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda2 946M 128M 754M 15% /boot
/dev/sda1 93G 87G 5.5G 95% /media/2AA64C7FA64C4D8F_Here comes the du command:
jack@jiaobuchong:~$ pwd
/home/jack
jack@jiaobuchong:~$ du -sh
1.9G .
jack@jiaobuchong:~$ cd ..
jack@jiaobuchong:/home$ du -sh jack/
1.9G jack/
jack@jiaobuchong:/home$ du -h --max-depth=0 jack/
1.9G jack/You can see the same result up here,
-s, —summarize display only a total each each argument, -s this parameter only shows the total, that is, the size of the current folder.
jack@jiaobuchong:~$ du -sh *
170M Desktop
452K Documents
161M Downloads
12K examples.desktop
833M installed-software
284K learngit
4.0K Music
4.7M Pictures
3.2M program_pratice
4.0K Public
112K session
4.0K Templates
4.0K Videos* you can list the size of all files in the current directory. What about sorting the listed files from large to small?
jack@jiaobuchong:~$ du -sh * | sort -nr
833M installed-software
452K Documents
284K learngit
170M Desktop
161M Downloads
112K session
12K examples.desktop
4.7M Pictures
4.0K Videos
4.0K Templates
4.0K Public
4.0K Music
3.2M program_praticeJust ask sort for a favor. Ha ha! This is not a normal sort, it’s all because of the -h parameter,
jack@jiaobuchong:~$ du -s * | sort -nr
852756 installed-software
173868 Desktop
164768 Downloads
4724 Pictures
3236 program_pratice
452 Documents
284 learngit
112 session
12 examples.desktop
4 Videos
4 Templates
4 Public
4 MusicSo now we have a normal sort.
du-s * | sort-nr | head pick the top 10,
du-s * | sort-nr | tail pick the next 10.
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