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December 1, 2014 · View on GitHub

POSIX 7 http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/du.html

Mnemonic: Disk Usage.

Get disk usage per file/dir:

du -hs * | sort -hr

-h: human readable: GiB, MiB, B
-s: summarize: only for directories in *, not subdirectories