tldr/pages/osx/du.md
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du

Estimate file space usage.

  • Get a sum of the total size of a file/folder in human readable units:

du -sh {{file/directory}}

  • List file sizes of a directory and any subdirectories in KB:

du -k {{file/directory}}

  • Get recursively, individual file/folder sizes in human readable form:

du -ah {{directory}}

  • List the KB sizes of directories for N levels below the specified directory:

du -k -depth=1 {{directory}}