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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 {{path/to/file_or_folder}}`
- List file sizes of a directory and any subdirectories in KB:
`du -k {{path/to/file_or_folder}}`
- Get recursively, individual file/folder sizes in human readable form:
`du -ah {{path/to/folder}}`
- List the human-readable sizes of directories for 2 levels of depth below the specified directory:
`du -h -d 2 {{path/to/folder}}`