Name

du - print disk usage

Synopsis

$ du [files...]

Description

du prints disk usage data for every argument, in KiB (kibibytes).

Options

• -a, --all: Write counts for all files, not just directories
• --apparent-size: Print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage
• -d N, --max-depth N: Print the total for a directory or file only if it is N or fewer levels below the command line argument
• -s, --summarize: Display only a total for each argument
• -t size, --threshold size: Exclude entries smaller than size if positive, or entries greater than size if negative
• --time time-type: Show time of time time-type of any file in the directory, or any of its subdirectories. Available choices: mtime, modification, ctime, status, use, atime, access
• --exclude pattern: Exclude files that match pattern
• -X file, --exclude_from: Exclude files that match any pattern in file

Arguments

• files: Files to print disk usage of

Examples

~ $ du -s *
4       Desktop
4       Documents
4       Downloads
6       README.md
4       Source
4       js-tests
4       tests
4       web-tests
~ $ du -a Documents
2       Documents/emoji.txt
2       Documents/zip/archive.zip
4       Documents/zip
2       Documents/tips.txt
4       Documents
~ $ du --apparent-size -a Documents
4       Documents/emoji.txt
4       Documents/zip/archive.zip
4       Documents/zip
4       Documents/tips.txt
4       Documents