July 24, 2012 @ 22:35

cli oneliner – sort top 10 directories

One simple oneliner that I picked up few years ago, and it is great for finding directories that eat up most of space in current directory.

ls -A | grep -v -e '^\.\.$' |xargs -i du -ks {} |sort -rn |head -11 | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -i du -hs {}

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Tobias Florek

what about

du –max-depth 1 -h .|sort -rh|head -12

it should perform quite better…
Doug

You can shorten that a bit on systems where sort supports ‘-h’

ls -A | grep -v -e ‘^\.\.$’ |xargs -i du -hs {} |sort -hr |head -11
foobar

New versions of du and sort have ‘human’ so now all you need is:

$ du -hxs ./* | sort -hr
http://ipozgaj.blogspot.com Igor Pozgaj

The second command in the pipeline (excluding .. with grep) is superfluous as ls -A won’t include . and .. in files/directories listing (read the manpage).

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