Is there a terminal command to list folder size and corresponding file sizes within on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)?

Question

Is there an Ubuntu 14.04 terminal command to list the folder size and give a break down of every file size in the folder and its size?

One of my folders is taking a great deal of space, and I'd like to identify which file(s) or subfolders are the culprit.

I know du -sh gives the total folder size and ls -lah in each folder gives me files/sub-folder sizes, but is there a way to get an overall snap shot of everything?

Answer 1

Yes, there is the tree command. Install it via sudo apt-get install tree, and type the following:

tree -h

From man tree:

-h    Print  the size of each file but in a more human readable way, e.g. appending a size letter for kilo‐
      bytes (K), megabytes (M), gigabytes (G), terabytes (T), petabytes (P) and exabytes (E).

Done :)

Answer 2

I like to use simply:

du -chd 1 | sort -h

It outputs the total size of each sub-directory from the current directory location (the "1" above), as well as a total of all sub-directories, and sorts it by human-readable sizes:

Answer 3

Tree is nice, and I know that might be what you asked for. I wanted to present you with something slightly different though to help you find what you are looking for (what is consuming the most space):

du -lah|grep -v -e '^.*K[[:space:]]'|sort -r -n

You can also pipe to head to just get the top list:

du -lah|grep -v -e '^.*K[[:space:]]'|sort -r -n|head

I was trying to actually give this with grep -v -e..., but it doesn't seem to be working on the output for du -lah for some reason. It should be sufficient though.

Answer 4

I found these helpful top 10 disk usages. For quick use, the command line is the following:

du -m | sort -nr | head -10

It lists all folders (including repetitive sub-folders) with most disk space usage sorted.