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How do I get the size of a Linux or Mac OS X directory from the command-line?

I am in a folder, and I want a list of all the sub-directories and their total sizes.

I dont' want it to list all the sub-directories and files in a recursive manner, just the top level directories and the total size it uses on my drive.

How can I do this?

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    Why the down votes? – Matteo Jan 27 '13 at 17:09
  • @Matteo I'd say that this question does not show research effort. In fact, the *Related* list shows the question which is essentially a duplicate, which means the OP should have seen it when they were searching for an answer to their question before they posted it. – slhck Jan 27 '13 at 17:14
  • @slhck I agree but I was more hinting that a down vote should be commented (or the question flagged). – Matteo Jan 27 '13 at 21:01
  • @slhck And actually the question is not an exact duplicate. In the possible duplicate nobody speaks of excluding files (du -hs * does not differentiate ...) – Matteo Jan 27 '13 at 21:03
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    @slhck I'm doing "research effort" right now just came across this page as most prominent Google hit. What does that say about your comment? – geotheory Feb 01 '15 at 13:42
  • @geotheory It's great that you searched first and found a helpful answer, and don't need to ask the same question (yet) again. Not sure what you're getting at? Matteo asked for a possible downvote reason, and I explained the most likely one. One reason we ask for research effort is to prevent duplicate questions from happening, and if this one is ranked highly on Google, even better. – slhck Feb 01 '15 at 15:10
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    Hi. I'm not commenting on down-voting. It's more a generic observation (probably belonging in meta) that I've solved innumerable problems using SO/SE pages that feature comments to the effect of 'should've checked google'.. – geotheory Feb 01 '15 at 15:25
  • for mac users, I just want to recommend this free software called Disk Inventory X. download it here http://www.derlien.com/ it's simple to use for mac osx – Adam Delarosa Jan 06 '18 at 23:06

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With du you can compute the size of a directory:

du -hs dir

if you have only directories you can just (-h will return a human readable units, -s will not recurse)

du -hs *

if in the folder you have contains files and folders:

find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec du -hs {} \;

find will list all the directories (-type d) in the current folder (-mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1) and execute du on them.

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  • FYI - As is this command generates a warning: _find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments._ Solution: `find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec du -hs {} \;` – Bisonbleu Jul 10 '19 at 14:27
  • @Bisonbleu Thanks, I edited the answer. BTW I don't get any warning on High Sierra. – Matteo Jul 20 '19 at 15:54
  • For the record, I'm on Mojave 10.14.5 – Bisonbleu Jul 21 '19 at 16:30
  • @Matteo How to sort the result? – Dr.jacky Oct 27 '21 at 15:24
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    @Dr.jacky Remove the ```-h``` option to ```du``` (size in bytes) and pipe the result to sort. E.g, ```du -s * | sort -n``` – Matteo Oct 29 '21 at 06:40
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Try typing the following from inside the directory you're interested in

du

Works on unix so should work on mac

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