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Moved du back seperate pages for linux/osx because GNU has --max-depth, BSD has -d Edited the examples to always explicitly specify unit as previous examples allowed return of block units which is probably not what your average user wants.
2014-02-10 20:27:59 +00:00
# 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}}`
Fix markdown lint warning for linux man pages
2015-10-22 08:00:05 +01:00
- list the KB sizes of directories for N levels below the specified directory
Moved du back seperate pages for linux/osx because GNU has --max-depth, BSD has -d Edited the examples to always explicitly specify unit as previous examples allowed return of block units which is probably not what your average user wants.
2014-02-10 20:27:59 +00:00
du: Fix argument inconsistency
2015-12-25 06:38:01 +00:00
`du --max-depth=N`