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List directories by size in Linux / AIX

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  1. To list the directory sizes in kilo bytes and largest at the top
  2. du -sk * | sort +0nr
  3. du -sk * | sort -nr
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  5. To list the directory sizes in Mega bytes and largest at the top
  6. du -sm * | sort +0nr
  7. du -sm * | sort -nr
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  9. To list the directory sizes in kilo bytes and largest at the bottom.
  10. du -sk * | sort +0n
  11. du -sk * | sort -n
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  13. To list the directory sizes in Mega bytes and largest at the bottom.
  14. du -sm * | sort +0n
  15. du -sm * | sort -n
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  17. To list the directory sizes in human readable format (Mix of kilo, Mega and Giga bytes) and largest at the bottom
  18. du -s *|sort -n|cut -f 2-|while read a;do du -hs $a;done
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  21. To list the size of hidden directories
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  23. du -sk .[a-z]* | sort +0nr
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  25. To list the size of all the files and directorires including hidden files and directories
  26. du -sk .[a-z]* * | sort +0n

URL: http://lokams.blogspot.com/2008/03/list-folders-directories-by-size-in.html

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