du

Options

--help

du-help-print-help

--all, -a

du-help-all

--apparent-size

du-help-apparent-size

--block-size=<SIZE>, -B <SIZE>

du-help-block-size

--bytes, -b

du-help-bytes

--total, -c

du-help-total

--max-depth=<N>, -d <N>

du-help-max-depth

--human-readable, -h

du-help-human-readable

--inodes

du-help-inodes

-k

du-help-block-size-1k

--count-links, -l

du-help-count-links

--dereference, -L

du-help-dereference

--dereference-args, -D, -H

du-help-dereference-args

--no-dereference, -P

du-help-no-dereference

-m

du-help-block-size-1m

--null, -0

du-help-null

--separate-dirs, -S

du-help-separate-dirs

--summarize, -s

du-help-summarize

--si

du-help-si

--one-file-system, -x

du-help-one-file-system

--threshold=<SIZE>, -t <SIZE>

du-help-threshold

--verbose, -v

du-help-verbose

--exclude=<PATTERN>

du-help-exclude

--exclude-from=<FILE>, -X <FILE>

du-help-exclude-from

--files0-from=<FILE>

du-help-files0-from

--time=<WORD>

du-help-time

--time-style=<STYLE>

du-help-time-style

Examples

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|--human-readable]}} {{path/to/directory}}

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

du {{[-sh|--summarize --human-readable]}} {{path/to/directory}}

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

du {{[-ah|--all --human-readable]}} {{path/to/directory}}

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

du {{[-h|--human-readable]}} {{[-d|--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|--total --human-readable]}} {{./*.jpg}}

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

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

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.