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September 7, 2019

Get Directory Size

Here’s how to get the size of a directory.

du -sh /var/www

du -sh /var/www

Output:

2.1GB    /var/www

2.1GB /var/www

Size of the directories and files one level down.

du -sh /var/www/*

du -sh /var/www/*

Sort with biggest files from top to bottom.

du -sh /var/www/* | sort -rh

du -sh /var/www/* | sort -rh

Top 5 biggest files from top to bottom.

du -sh /var/www/* | sort -rh | head -5

du -sh /var/www/* | sort -rh | head -5

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