Comments on: cli oneliner – sort top 10 directories

By: Igor Pozgaj

Igor Pozgaj — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:32:16 +0000

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).

By: foobar

foobar — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:20:52 +0000

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

$ du -hxs ./* | sort -hr

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:40:05 +0000

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

By: Tobias Florek

Tobias Florek — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:28:57 +0000

what about

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

it should perform quite better…