du

du reports the amount of disk space used by the set of specified files and for each subdirectory (of directory arguments).

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Documentation

• du [EN] @ GNU Coreutils Manual

• man 1 'du' [EN]

Syntax

du [PARAMETER ...] [FILE/DIRECTORY ...]

Parameters

-c, --total

Print a grand total of all arguments after all arguments have been processed. This can be used to find out the total disk usage of a given set of files or directories.

-h, --human-readable

Append a size letter to each size, such as M for mebibytes. Powers of 1024 are used, not 1000; M stands for 1,048,576 bytes. This option is equivalent to --block-size='human-readable'.

-s, --summarize

Display only a total for each argument.

--si

Append an SI-style abbreviation to each size, such as M for megabytes. Powers of 1000 are used, not 1024; M stands for 1,000,000 bytes. This option is equivalent to --block-size='si'.