x83.net » du http://www.x83.net Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:53:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to sort folders by size with one command line in Linux http://www.x83.net/how-to-sort-folders-by-size-with-one-command-line-in-linux/ http://www.x83.net/how-to-sort-folders-by-size-with-one-command-line-in-linux/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:35:40 +0000 Giany http://www.x83.net/?p=347

du –max-depth=1 $PWD | sort -n -r
du -H –max-depth=1 $PWD

“-H” – produce human readable format sizes (like: 1K 10M 1G)

A good and short one liner using xargs

du -s ./* | sort -n| cut -f 2-|xargs -i du -sh {}

This will sort the folders according to size and display them in human readable format… to reverse the list
use sort -nr option.

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