Re: How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories

[Valent Turkovic]

On 3/6/07, Nigel Henry  wrote:
> This is a silly question perhaps. I have my soundfiles in a directory named
> Sounds Library, this contains many subdirectories, which contain the .wav
> files.
>
> What command can I use to find out the disk space this directory is taking up,
> including all the files that are in the subdirectories?
>
> Nigel.
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Hi,
I hope you appreciate this great one-liner I found for enhaced 'du' -
it even knows how to sort kB, MB and GB sizes right!

ls -A | grep -v -e '^..$' |xargs -i du -ks {} |sort -rn |head -11 |
awk '{print $2}' | xargs -i du -hs {}

Hope you like it.