9 examples for du

  # File size in human-readable format(-h) of everything in that folder
du -sh *

# List human readable size of all sub folders from current location 
du -h --max-depth=1

# Sorted filesystem usage
du -s * | sort -nr
        

  # File size in human-readable format(-h) of everything in that folder
du -sh *
        

  # List human readable size of all sub folders from current location 
du -h --max-depth=1
        

  # list subfolders with size (mac)
du -h -d 1
        

  # Outputs the size of the specified Directory in human-readable format
du -sh Directory
        

  # Sorted filesystem usage
du -s * | sort -nr
        

  # sorted by size (mac)
du -hs * | sort
        

  # List the largest directories in reversed order (useful alias)

du -kx | egrep -v "\./.+/" | sort -n
        

  # Disk usage of all files and folders in this directory, on this filesystem, human-readable: 
du -d1 -x -h

# Now sorted:
du -d1 -x -h | sort -h