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du

Estimate file space usage

• get a sum of the total size of a file/folder in human readable units

du -sh {{file/directory}}

• list file sizes of a directory and any subdirectories in KB

du -k {{file/directory}}

• get recursively, individual file/folder sizes in human readable form

du -ah {{directory}}

• list the KB sizes of directories for N levels below the specified directory

du -k -depth=1 {{directory}}