du

Disk usage: estimate and summarize file and directory space usage. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/du-invocation.html.

• List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in the given unit (B/KiB/MiB):

du -b|k|m path/to/directory

• List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in human-readable form (i.e. auto-selecting the appropriate unit for each size):

du -h path/to/directory

• Show the size of a single directory, in human-readable units:

du -sh path/to/directory

• List the human-readable sizes of a directory and of all the files and directories within it:

du -ah path/to/directory

• List the human-readable sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, up to N levels deep:

du -h --max-depth=N path/to/directory

• List the human-readable size of all .jpg files in current directory, and show a cumulative total at the end:

du -ch ./*.jpg

• List all files and directories (including hidden ones) above a certain [t]hreshold size (useful for investigating what is actually taking up the space):

du --all --human-readable --threshold 1G|1024M|1048576K .[^.]* *