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# du
> Disk usage: estimate and summarize file and directory space usage.
> More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/du.1.html>.
- List the sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, in the given unit (KiB/MiB/GiB):
`du -{{k|m|g}} {{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 {{path/to/directory}}`
- Show the size of a single directory, in human-readable units:
`du -sh {{path/to/directory}}`
- List the human-readable sizes of a directory and of all the files and directories within it:
`du -ah {{path/to/directory}}`
- List the human-readable sizes of a directory and any subdirectories, up to N levels deep:
`du -h -d {{2}} {{path/to/directory}}`
- List the human-readable size of all `.jpg` files in subdirectories of the current directory, and show a cumulative total at the end:
`du -ch {{*/*.jpg}}`