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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_or_directory}}

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

du -k {{file_or_directory}}

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

du -m {{file_or_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 --max-depth=N